TOEFL Question
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Allegory
■ A) Authors use many storytelling techniques to give the basic events of their story a deeper meaning. ■ B) In an allegory, the author uses metaphor to such an extent that the entire story becomes an extended metaphor for something completely unrelated to the events of the story itself. ■ C) Allegory can have many uses, though it is most often used either to provide another way to understand a difficult concept or to represent a story in a new, entertaining way. ■ D)_?xml_:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Plato’s allegory of the cave is an example of using an allegory in order to help readers understand the concepts being discussed.
● A) Plato believed in a world of forms, in which everything existed in its “real” state. ● B) Realizing that these concepts are difficult to understand, Plato wrote the allegory of the cave in his philosophical work The republic. In it, Plato uses an extended metaphor to explain his concepts. ● C) The allegory involves prisoners chained up in a cave who can look only at the wall of the cave and cannot turn around to view the entrance. The prisoners can see the shadows of the activity happening outside, and they mistake these shadows for reality. ● D) However, one prisoner manages to escape his bondage and leave the cave. He can now see the real world instead of shadows. The allegory, then, is attempting to explain philosophical knowledge. The prisoners represent the public, who can only see the representations of the forms (the shadows on the wall). Only by escaping the cave can one see the real representation of the world as philosophers do.
◆ A) In addition, writes use allegories to create a new telling of a familiar story. An example is Animal Farm by George Orwell. ◆ B) Orwell wanted to write a story about the political situation in the 1940s. ◆ C) Instead, Orwell placed his story in the world of a farm of animals. Many of the characters were pigs, horses, and donkeys. In the story, the animals stage a revolution and evict the humans form their farm. However, the animals soon find that they are not fit to govern the farm themselves, and their situation turns into a disaster. ◆ D) However, the allegorical meaning of the story describes Orwell’s viewpoint on a popular topic in 1940s politics. In fact, most allegories can be understood literally, according to the events that transpire in the book, and figuratively, in terms of what those events represent.
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Metaphor: figurative language; a concept that is used to represent an unrelated idea
Bondage: the state of being restrained
Stage: to pan and carry out
Evict: to put out from a building
Fit: well suited
Transpire: to happen
Figuratively: using a metaphor; not literally
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Q. Look at the four squares [■] that indicate where the following sentence could be added to the passage.
One such literary technique is called allegory.
Where would the sentence best fit?
(A) First square
(B) Second square
(C) Third square
(D) Forth square
A> (B) Second square