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CAHSEE ELA 9.5 Ambiguities. Which of the following statements about allegory is true?
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- 00:03
When I shmoop, you shmoop, we shmoop... Which of the following statements about allegory is true?
- 00:09
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:13
So... what is this question asking?
- 00:15
Yup -- ALLEGORY is the $5 vocab word of the day.
- 00:19
Oh yeah... one of those things that keeps eating small dogs in southern Florida, right?
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- 00:23
Uh... no. An allegory is just a kind of comparison that has a pattern.
- 00:29
Such and such, which is like A, is compared with such and such, which is really like B.
- 00:35
The song London Bridge -- which refers to a bridge falling down due to a union labor
- 00:39
strike -- is commonly cited as an allegory of the decline of England from greatness to mediocrity.
- 00:49
Allegories have a lot of freedom -- they don't HAVE TO be a poem -- so A is wrong.
- 00:53
Talking animals are cute... but they don't have to be an allegory. So we can cross off
- 00:58
B.
- 01:00
An allegory can be about a historical event, as in the case of London Bridge... but not
- 01:05
a requirement. Adios to choice C.
- 01:09
But what about B? It's pretty much a LITERAL definition of allegory.
- 01:13
"An allegorical work has an underlying figurative meaning and takes symbolism a step further."
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So our answer is B
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