1. The representation of abstract ideas or principles by characters, figures, or events in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form.
             2. A story, picture, or play employing such representation. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Herman Melville's Moby Dick are allegories.
             2. A symbolic representation: The blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice.
             The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables, as in "on scrolls of silver snowy sentences" (Hart Crane). Modern alliteration is predominantly consonantal; certain literary traditions, such as Old English verse, also alliterate using vowel sounds.
             1. The act of alluding; indirect reference: Without naming names, the candidate criticized the national leaders by allusion.
             2. An instance of indirect reference: an allusion to classical mythology in a poem.
             Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation: "leading a life of alleged moral ambiguity" (Anatole Broyard).
             Something of doubtful meaning: a poem full of ambiguities.
             One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary.
             The principal character in opposition to the protagonist or hero of a narrative or drama.
             The direct address of an absent or imaginary person or of a personified abstraction, especially as a digression in the course of a speech or composition.
             1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: " 'Frankenstein'... 'Dracula'... 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'... the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times).
             2. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
             1. To or toward the side: step aside.
             2. Out of one's thoughts or mind: put my doubts aside.
             3. Apart: a day set aside for relaxing.
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