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GERMAN · C2WORD NOTES
MEANING & PRONUNCIATION

die Allegorie

allegory (a story or image in which characters or events represent abstract ideas)

IN CONTEXT

Erst als meine Tochter die Figuren als Allegorie auf Gier und Großzügigkeit deutete, erschloss sich mir der Schluss des Märchens.

Only when my daughter read the characters as symbolic portrayals of greed and generosity did the ending of the fairy tale make sense to me.

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