allegory

Converse of object

• write: Why, then, would a Puritan like Bunyan write allegory at all?
• become: The three stories are closely interwoven, and the story of Chess becomes an allegory to link them all.
• use: Orwell's review contains a clear and early form of the allegory used in Animal Farm.
• make: Were we disposed to make the allegory of the eighth day, theirs would not be the proper mode of it.
• call: All this appears in the ritual in the form of a story or fable, called an allegory.
• depict: The Colnaghi picture depicts an allegory of sin and redemption.

Adjective modifier

• Manichean: Who loved children manichean allegory the world series of has to sell.
• Christian: There is no need for anyone to get into a PC huff about its Christian allegory.
• religious: Most of Dix's post-war paintings were religious allegories.
• political: But then there's ' Animal Farm ' , perhaps the best known political allegory ever written.
• historical: The film succeeds not only in terms of action and suspense but as cautionary fable, historical allegory, social satire and moral disquisition.
• great: The arresting cover is a wraparound of Gilbert and George's great panoramic allegory of 1983, Drunk with God.

Noun used with modifier

century: The Concorde project - a 20th century allegory For a quarter of a century Concorde provided the only regular supersonic travel.

Preposition: of

• life: He imagines the dentist chair as an allegory of life itself so he needs stick it out.
• cave: The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this.
• society: These films are often subtle allegories of the totalitarian society and functioned as a subversive voice within state-controlled production.
• history: What follows is an allegory of a dangerous political history of the first half of the twentieth century.
• world: I believe the Village being an allegory of the world at the time of filming also sought a strong leader.

Preposition: for

life: Q. To that extent, are his experiences an allegory for life?