allegorization
- noun
- /ˌælɪɡəraɪˈzeɪʃən/
- Literature
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allegorización
- Many critics appreciated the allegorization in the novel, which portrayed the society's flaws through its characters.
- allegorization of woman
Examples
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They serve as title pictures, objects of ekphrasis and glossing, and as springboards for allegorization.
Academic text (2007) -
If the allegorization of "Woman" in Munch's painting places it squarely in the reductionist cultural norms of its time, it is equally orthodox in its representation of "Woman's" role in the artistic process.
Academic text (2000) -
We do not need to stoop either to bare moralism or allegorization.
Blog text (23) -
The old woman of his anecdote more nearly represents the particularity of India, which resists allegorization.
Academic text (1991) -
The teledjl is an allegorization of discourse that subverts the transparency of a purely referential language.
Academic text (1997) -
In El Criticón, the allegorization and transcendentalization of spatial movement dominate, and travel defines a voyage through life.
Academic text (1996) -
When she appears in the episode to correct what has been erroneously said about her and to tell her own story, she succeeds in subjecting man's negative portrayal of her to scrutiny and thus works against the categorical allegorization of woman.
Academic text (2003) -
In this sense, Exodus would not follow Architettura Radicale's experimentation with or allegorization of the potential liberties to be harnessed by those new social subjects emerging within the postindustrial milieu.
Academic text (2003) -
The interpolated dramatizations, sometimes allegorizations, of these Renaissance sermons assimilate the techniques of epideictic homiletics to those of drama, to the antos sacramentales.
Academic text (1990) -
The author's allegorization of the struggle between good and evil made the story more impactful.
Synonyms
Interpreting a text, speech, or picture as a story that stands for other ideas
Interpreting stories or texts as symbols of deeper truths rather than literal events
Antonyms
3
4.9
People understand words in their exact meaning without hidden or deeper ideas
How Allegorical
- Literature
- US
314
4.4
3
4.9
Surface Forms
Morphology
allegorization = allegorize (transparent) = allegorize + ation
Formed by adding the nominalizing suffix '-ation' to the verb 'allegorize', yielding a predictable 'act/process' noun.
Etymology
Allegorization comes from allegory, a word for a story that 'says something else' — a tale with a hidden moral or meaning. So, allegorization is the act of turning a story, event, or idea into a symbol or hidden meaning.