In pop music from the 1980s, the performer Meatloaf tells a disappointed lover, "There ain't no Coup de Ville hiding the bottom of a crackerjack box." The image of a luxury car hidden as a prize in the bottom of a tiny cardboard candybox emphasizes how unlikely or impossible it is his hopeful lover will find such a fantastic treasure in someone as cheap, common, and unworthy as the speaker in these lyrics. In spite of that impossibility, readers know Shakespeare means Hamlet will address Gertrude in a painful, contemptuous way. For instance, Hamlet says of Gertrude, "I will speak daggers to her." A man can speak words, but no one can literally speak daggers. The results in each case are so unique that it is hard to state a general figure of speech that embodies all of the possible results. The entire narrative is a representation of the human soul's pilgrimage through temptation and doubt to reach salvation in heaven.Ī completely impossible figure of speech or an implied metaphor that results from combining other extreme figures of speech such as anthimeria, hyperbole, synaesthesia, and metonymy. Example: John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678), in which the hero named Christian flees the City of Destruction and travels through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, Vanity Fair, Doubting Castle, and finally arrives at the Celestial City. The act of interpreting a story as if each object in it had an _ meaning is called allegoresis. Typically, an _ involves the interaction of multiple symbols, which together create a moral, spiritual, or even political meaning. An _ reading usually involves moral or spiritual concepts that may be more significant than the actual, literal events described in a narrative. This narrative acts as an extended metaphor in which persons, abstract ideas, or events represent not only themselves on the literal level, but they also stand for something else on the symbolic level. The term loosely describes any writing in verse or prose that has a double meaning. The word derives from the Greek ("speaking otherwise").
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