parabolic
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- adjective
- /ˌpærəˈbɑlɪk/
- Literature
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parabólico
- More straightforward fabular or parabolic examples of the Aesopian kind can be found in Sun Tzu and Han Fei-tzu.
- fabular or parabolic
- parabolic mode
Examples
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Narratives in much of historical writing, East and West, conflate real events and moral and ethical outcomes, turning them into serious parabolic models for future actions.
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The one-act play, by contrast, lends itself to depicting parabolic situations.
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So far, we have looked at samples of the parabolic mode of writing in the Korean tradition.
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All these fabular or parabolic tales lean more toward realism than toward moral teaching.
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And in the parabolic worldview that the narrator summons and the plot invokes, it is form that speaks the meaning of history.
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Our task is then, starting from the parabolic mode of writing, to get some sense of the pragmatic concerns of East Asian thinkers, and proceed to a consideration of ways to move on to the possibility of broader global integration.
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If the watcher can maintain this impossible thought as he drifts asleep, he will see that the parabolic injunction of the biblical text is effectively inverted.
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The important point is that they all involve pragmatic concern; all fabular and parabolic narration takes on new significance when it is related to the assumption the reader is induced to make about the unity of the normative and the actual in human performance in the story.
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The parabolic story illustrates moral lessons through symbolic characters.
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In her speech, she used a parabolic analogy to explain complex ideas.
Synonyms
A style that uses short stories to teach a moral or idea
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A curved shiny surface that focuses parallel light rays to one point
- Specialized
A curved surface shaped like a bowl that focuses light or sound into a beam
- Specialized
A branch of mathematics that follows Euclid's rules for flat space
How Allegorical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Parabolic also comes from the Greek parabole, which meant 'a comparison' and gave us the English word parable for a short story that teaches a lesson. So calling speech or writing parabolic means it is like a parable—a story that shows a deeper idea or moral.