What is the allegory

What is the allegory

If you are fond of writing of art prose or verses, you need to know the most widespread literary methods / forms and to be able to apply them - so your work will be much more expressive and more original.

OpredelenieInoskazanie, according to the Big Encyclopaedic Dictionary, is a literary reception, expression with the hidden sense. In strict value the allegory is an allegory synonym. In more expanded interpretation - this statement in which ""letter"" and ""spirit"" do not coincide can be even opposite. For this reason in the works containing allegories, sense not always "lies on a palm" - it needs to be seen, it is necessary to understand correctly a thought of which the author wanted to inform the reader. The same BES refers irony and an Aesopian language to allegories. On the other hand, feelings or other concepts which do not have the visible form thanks to application of allegories, become available, recognizable. Embodied at images, they help to express an abstract concept most precisely.

Types of allegories

1. An embodiment (differently – personification) – investment with lines of the living being of inanimate objects: "revival" ("queen night", "magician winter") or the use of the verb applied concerning living beings in a figurative sense in relation to inanimate objects (the sun played, birches whisper). 2. Indirect satire – the works showing, deriding, condemning shortcomings of the time behind a mask of a perenesennost of actions (last, future time or the fictional worlds and persons. Here also fairy tales, for example, "A wise gudgeon").3 can enter. characteristic features. Under many allegorical expressions the mythological or folklore base is failed. Examples of allegories: a lion – the sign of force, a hare – cowardice, justice – the goddess Themis with a sword and scales.4. An euphemism – the words or expressions replacing the words synonymous on sense. The softness, a sobiratelnost is characteristic of an euphemism. Are used in situations when other designations are undesirable (are impolite, too sharp). Examples: the person of nonconventional orientation - the gay, the African American – the Black and other.

PrimenenieInoskazaniya is used very often in poems and prose for giving to images of brightness, raciness as a way to avoid banalities. However, trying to make the works memorable by means of application of this reception, the beginning authors risk to face opposite effect as much, most often used embodiments, allegories already became hackneyed. On other end of an extreme – the abundance and an interlacing of different types of allegories doing the work extremely difficult for reading and understanding. It is important to find "golden mean" that is in most cases reached by trainings and increase in creative experience.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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