Clues for the word "ALLEGORY"
We've had 24 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 28 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on June 12, 2024.
Definition of allegory
- n. - A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.
- n. - Anything which represents by suggestive resemblance; an emblem.
- n. - A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.
Referring Clues
- Symbolic story
- Symbolic tale
- "The Tortoise and the Hare," for one
- Story with symbolism
- "Animal Farm," for one
- Story with metaphorical characters
- Story with a lesson
- Lesson taught through symbolism
- Utterly base and gruesome moral tale
- Symbolic tale - early log (anag)
- Scrambled early goal, after missing a significant part of the play?
- Symbolic narrative
- Go really wild with a symbolic tale
- Girl repelled by bloody tale
- Moral tale has the bloody lot on ecstasy
- Work of art intended to be understood symbolically
- Girl taken aback by grisly story
- Go really wild with "Pilgrim's Progress", for example
- The Spanish upset the French with bloody symbolic art
- Fitzgerald returned with grisly tale
- "The Crucible," for McCarthyism
- A short moral story
- Moral story
- "Animal Farm" is one
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 12, 2024
- Penny Dell Sunday - August 13, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - February 05, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 03, 2018
- Guardian Cryptic - November 30, 2017
- Netword - March 08, 2017
- USA Today - December 23, 2016
- New York Times - January 05, 2016
- Guardian Everyman - February 16, 2014
- Guardian Quick - March 08, 2012
- Netword - November 29, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - August 23, 2010
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - August 01, 2010
- LA Times - July 29, 2010
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 12, 2010
- Jonesin - December 01, 2009
- Universal - November 21, 2009
- Guardian Quick - November 04, 2009
- Guardian Quiptic - August 24, 2009
- USA Today - October 24, 2007
- Guardian Quick - October 16, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 12, 2006
- Guardian Cryptic - August 11, 2006
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - April 13, 2006
- Guardian Cryptic - February 15, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - January 15, 2002
- Guardian Cryptic - November 29, 2001
- Guardian Cryptic - August 27, 1999