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All of these animalistic metaphors are universally considered derogatory to some extent, but some of them have additional specific negative connotations in this context. Some of these additional connotations may be rooted in some traditions regarding specific animals in the Arab or Muslim culture itself (as in the case of dogs [ 1 ] [ 8 ...
Leopard's Head box, 19th century. Wood with metal tags, used to hold kola nuts in the royal court of Benin, where leopard was an epithet for a powerful person.. An animal epithet is a name used to label a person or group, by association with some perceived quality of an animal.
Pages in category "Short stories about talking animals" The following 109 pages are in this category, out of 109 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Pages in category "Metaphors referring to animals" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
A 1830 print by Achille Devéria depicting the story of Little Red Riding Hood, where a child mistakes a wolf for her grandmother and converses with it. Talking animals are a common element in mythology and folk tales, children's literature, and modern comic books and animated cartoons.
Cartoonist William Allen Rogers in 1906 sees the political uses of Oz: he depicts William Randolph Hearst as Scarecrow stuck in his own Ooze in Harper's Weekly. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of ...
For example, in Ray Bradbury's short story, "There Will Come Soft Rains", he describes a futuristic "smart house" in a post-nuclear-war time. All life is dead except for one dog, which dies in the course of the story. However, Bradbury mentions mice, snakes, robins, swallows, giraffes, antelopes, and many other animals in the course of the story.
List of fictional turtles; List of fictional birds; List of fictional birds of prey; List of fictional ducks; List of fictional penguins; Fictional mammals; Fictional carnivorans; List of fictional bears; List of fictional canines (coyotes, jackals, foxes, wolves) List of fictional dogs; List of fictional cats and other felines; List of ...