Although numerous political references to the " Wizard " appeared early in the 20th century, it was in a scholarly article by Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, published in 1964 that there appeared the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended political allegory of the politics and characters of the 1890s.

As a literary device, allegory is essentially an extended metaphor — or a comparison that runs throughout the play.

However, " extended metaphor " is not in itself a sufficient description of parable ; the characteristics of an extended metaphor are shared by many narrative types, including the allegory, the fable and the apologue.

Enduringly popular, the tale is at once an adventure story, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeying toward India represents individuals journeying towards enlightenment.

For example, his short work To the Princess Margaret marked the arrival of Margaret of England into Scotland and the extended allegory The Thrissil and the Rois commemorates her subsequent marriage to King James.

Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.

Alcaeus rarely used metaphor or simile and yet he had a fondness for the allegory of the storm-tossed ship of state.

Later writers took even more freedom, some even including allegory and metaphor in their texts.

But some time later, the metaphor of the morning star that Isaiah 14: 12 applied to a king of Babylon gave rise to the general use of the Latin word for " morning star ", capitalized, as the original name of the Devil before his fall from grace, linking Isaiah 14: 12 with (" I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven ") and interpreting the passage in Isaiah as an allegory of Satan's fall from heaven.

* allegory: Extended metaphor in which a story is told to illustrate an important attribute of the subject

Socrates remarks that this allegory can be taken with what was said before, namely the metaphor of the Sun, and the divided line.

The accounts are characterised by extensive use of allegory, metaphor, parable, hyperbole, and personification.

The allegory is a more general narrative type, which covers any use of figurative metaphor.

Like the allegory, the parable uses metaphor to make its point.

In The Republic, these concepts were illustrated using the metaphor of the sun, the analogy of the divided line, and the allegory of the cave.

Such steps follow the same pattern as Plato's metaphor of the sun, his allegory of the cave and his divided line ; progress brings one closer and closer to reality as each step explains the relative reality of the past.

Scholars who interpret The Wizard of Oz as a political allegory see the Emerald City as a metaphor for Washington, D. C. and unsecured " greenback " paper money.

The " Kree-Skrull War " is notable for its cosmic scope of interstellar warfare, enormous cast of characters, use of metaphor and allegory ( for instance, to Joseph McCarthy and HUAC ), and the introduction of the Vision-Scarlet Witch romance, which became an ongoing theme for the characters ( and by default the Avengers ) for years to come.

), which is the Classical fatherland of everything connected with allegory, metaphor and imagination.

Vickrey argued that the poem is an allegory for the life of a sinner through the metaphor of “ the boat of the mind ,” a metaphor used “ to describe, through the imagery of a ship at sea, a person ’ s state of mind ” ( 251 ).

Many Gnostic movements made extensive use of allegory and metaphor in their interpretation of spiritual texts.

Later writers took even more freedom, some even including allegory and metaphor in their texts.

It is next and in support of the idea that philosophers are the best rulers that Plato fashions the ship of state metaphor, one of his most often cited ideas ( along with his allegory of the cave ).

It does not, however, mean a complete denial of literary aspects, genre, or figures of speech within the text ( e. g., parable, allegory, simile, or metaphor ).

The narrative tone is similar to Kafka's, especially in The Trial, wherein individual sentences potentially have multiple meanings, the material often pointedly resonating as stark allegory of phenomenal consciousness and the human condition.

Some Christian readers consider this story to contain an allegory, representing the interaction between the church as ' bride ' and God.

The story of Adam and Eve is held to be an allegory.

" If the irreal story can be considered an allegory, then, it would be an allegory that is " so many pointers to an unknown meaning ," in which the meaning is felt more than it is articulated or systematically analyzed.

# There was no fish: the story is an allegory, the fish is a literary device in the story, the story is a vision or a dream etc.

This story is an allegory ; the android was primitive scholasticism, which was broken by the Summa of St Thomas, the daring innovator who first substituted the absolute law of reason for arbitrary divinity, by formulating that axiom which we cannot repeat too often, since it comes from such a master: " A thing is not just because God wills it, but God wills it because it is just.

The chronicler related this story ( a typical medieval allegory ) as follows:

Although the poem is often read as a Christian allegory, Jerome McGann argues that it is really a story of our salvation of Christ, rather than the other way round.

Like the Mahābhārata, the Ramayana is not just a story: it presents the teachings of ancient Hindu sages ( Vedas ) in narrative allegory, interspersing philosophical and devotional elements.

Another story, " The Tale of Truth and Falsehood ", adapts the conflict of Horus and Set into an allegory, in which the characters are direct personifications of truth and lies rather than deities associated with those concepts.

Shippey also suggests that, while Tolkien discouraged reading this story as allegory, a good case can be made that Nokes represents the literary, critical approach to studying English, belittling the contributions of the philological approach represented by the previous Master Cook.

The story, about a young boy who orders a Montreal Canadiens sweater from the Eaton's catalogue, but receives a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey instead, is considered by many to be a literary allegory for the linguistic and cultural tensions between English and French Canadians, and is thus considered essential reading for anybody who seeks to understand the complex realities of linguistic and cultural identity in Canada.

The story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading.

This would imply the entire story is an allegory about man's futile attempts to stave off death ; this interpretation is commonly accepted.

" Most commentators concur that the story is an allegory, but they disagree as to what is represented.

The story is an allegory about true appreciation of poetry and literature versus pedantry.

It is a story told as a sermon might be delivered: an allegory ... each scene is at once so simple and so charged and layered that it catches us again and again ... Somehow all of Bergman's own past, that of his father, that of his reading and doing and seeing, that of his Swedish culture, of his political burning and religious melancholy, poured into a series of pictures which carry that swell of contributions and contradictions so effortlessly that you could tell the story to a child, publish it as a storybook of photographs and yet know that the deepest questions of religion and the most mysterious revelation of simply being alive are both addressed.

In Ishmael, Daniel Quinn puts forth the idea of the story of Cain and Abel being an allegory describing the conflict between agricultural and pastoral peoples in the Fertile Crescent.

The basic elements of the story can also be interpreted as a nature allegory: the Princess represents Nature, the Wicked Fairy is Winter, who puts the Court to sleep with pricks of frost until the Prince ( Spring ) cuts away the brambles with his sword ( a sunbeam ) to allow the sun to awaken sleeping Nature.

The story remains a Nazi allegory, including the Swastika-like emblem used by the Visitors and their SS-like uniforms.