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Allegory is a literary device in which characters, events, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. It is a story within a story that conveys deeper meanings.

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18th and 19th Century Literature
AP European History
Acting for the Stage
Advanced Film Writing
Advanced Screenwriting
African American Literature Before 1900
African American Literature Since 1900
American Art Before 1865
American Cinema to 1960
American Literature Before 1860
American Literature Since 1860
American Literature: Before 1800
Ancient Portraiture and Biography
Ancient Religion
Ancient Times: Myth, History, Measurement
Art Theory and Criticism
Art and Ecology
Art and Literature
Art and Philosophy
Art and Politics
Art in the Dutch Golden Age
Art of Ancient Greece (500-320 B.C.)
Art of India: 1350 to Present
Art: Prehistoric to Middle Ages
Art: Renaissance to Modern Times
Baroque Art
British Literature I
Chaucer
Classical Poetics
Classics of the Ancient Mediterranean World
Creative Video Development
Dramaturgy
Drawing: Foundations
English 10
English 11
English 12
English Prose Style
English and Language Arts Education
Epic and Saga
Europe, 1000-1500
European Art and Civilization Before 1400
European Art and Civilization Since 1400
Feminist Art History
Film Aesthetics
Film and Media Theory
Folklore and Visual Culture
Fundamentals of Stage Directing
Gothic Art in Northern Europe
Greek and Roman Comedy
Greek and Roman Myths
Greek and Roman Religion
History of Art Criticism
History of Theatre I: Classical Athens to Elizabethan London
International Cinema
Introduction to Art
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural History
Introduction to Contemporary Literature
Introduction to Hinduism
Introduction to Humanities
Introduction to Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Introduction to Premodern Chinese Literature and Culture
Introduction to Premodern Korean Literature and Culture
Introduction to Screenwriting
Introduction to Theatre Arts
Introduction to the Archaeology of the Greek World
Language and Culture
Literary Theory and Criticism
Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century
Literature in English: The Mid-19th through the Mid-20th Century
Literature in English: Through Milton
Literature of the Americas Before 1900
Literature of the Restoration and Early Eighteenth Century
Mass Media and Society
Media Criticism
Medieval Literature
Middle English Literature
Modern East Asian Fiction
Myth and Literature
Native American Literature
Native American Narratives
Native American Philosophy
Nineteenth Century Art
Northern Renaissance Art
Performance Art
Philosophy of Religion
Playwriting Workshop
Production III
Religion and Literature
Religion and Literature in the Greco-Roman World
Renaissance Art
Roman Art
Screenwriting II
Semiotics in Art
Storytelling for Film and Television
Symbolism in Art
TV Comedy
TV Genres
Television Criticism
Television Studies
The Art and Monuments of Augustan Rome
The Craft of Writing: Film Focus
The English Novel
The Human Storyteller
The Islamic World
The Middle Ages
The Renaissance
Theories and Methods of Art History
Understanding Television
Visual Storytelling
World Literature I
World Literature II
Writing for Communication
Writing the Narrative Short
Writing the Television Pilot

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