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Allegory: a metaphoric narrative in which the literal elements indirectly reveal a parallel story of symbolic or abstract significance. [13] [14] [15] Allusion: covert reference to another work of literature or art. Anacoenosis: posing a question to an audience, often with the implication that it shares a common interest with the speaker.
Italiano: A picture of the Allegory of Human Life by Alessandro Allori on the back of a portrait he did of Bianca Cappello. The work is a colored copy of a drawing by Michelangelo The work is a colored copy of a drawing by Michelangelo
As a literary device or artistic form, an allegory is a narrative or visual representation in which a character, place, or event can be interpreted to represent a meaning with moral or political significance. Authors have used allegory throughout history in all forms of art to illustrate or convey complex ideas and concepts in ways that are ...
We believe that among God's good gifts are human minds capable of critical thought and that the failure to fully employ this gift is a rejection of the will of our Creator. [25] Prominent evangelical advocates of metaphorical interpretations of Genesis include Meredith G. Kline and Henri Blocher who advocate the literary framework view.
Allegory is used extensively in Renaissance literature. Developing from the use of allegory in the Middle Ages , Renaissance literature exhibits an increased emphasis on courtly love , [ 1 ] sometimes abandoning intelligibility for deliberately unintelligible allegories.
According to Andrew Escobedo, "literary personification marshalls inanimate things, such as passions, abstract ideas, and rivers, and makes them perform actions in the landscape of the narrative." [28] He dates "the rise and fall of its [personification's] literary popularity" to "roughly, between the fifth and seventeenth centuries". [29]
The allegorical personification of Italy (Italia turrita; lit. ' Turreted Italy ').The allegorical representation with the towers draws its origins from ancient Rome.The origin of the turreted woman is linked to the figure of Cybele, a deity of fertility of Anatolian origin, in whose representations she wears a wall crown.
Augustan literature (sometimes referred to misleadingly as Georgian literature) is a style of British literature produced during the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I, and George II in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, with the deaths of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, in 1744 and 1745, respectively.