Load-Bearing Elements – Allegory
You're not planning to do anything cutesy like spend the whole time discussing something other than Allegory only to reveal that you were actually talking about Allegory the whole time are you? Probably not. Okay, because I don't like Allegories. That's fine, I'm not here to tell you what to like. I'm here to blog about books. And before you say that your dislike of Allegory means that it isn't enough to support an entire work of fiction, let's just agree that whether or not you like it authors have been using it for millennia and we can't just ignore it. Well, we could just ignore it, but I suspect you've got a "because-it's-there" mentality when it comes to discussing literary devices. That's the spirit, Hypothetical Reader. So, what do you know about Allegory? The word itself derives from Ancient Greek and literally means something like "to talk about something else." But I would say most people would think ...