"Allegory is a figurative mode of representation conveying meaning other than the literal. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation. Allegory is generally treated as a figure of rhetoric, but an allegory does not have to be expressed in language: it may be addressed to the eye, and is often found in realistic painting, sculpture or some other form of mimetic, or representative art. Simply put, an allegory is a device used to present an idea, principle or meaning, which can be presented in literary form, such as a poem or novel, or in visual form, such as in painting or sculpture. As a literary device, an allegory in its most general sense is an extended metaphor. As an artistic device, an allegory is a visual symbolic representation. An example of a simple visual allegory is the image of the grim reaper. Viewers understand that the image of the grim reaper is a symbolic representation of death. Nevertheless, images and fictions with several possible interpretations are not allegories in the true sense. Furthermore, not every fiction with general application is an allegory." - Thomas Page

pstp lit King Arthur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 6 -2 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://www.guardian.co.uk/artandd... , 10 -31 Camelot http://friendfeed.com/citizen... http://friendfeed.com/biograp... - Thomas Page

Holy Grail http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Quest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 10 -19 Sciamachy http://www.urbandictionary.com/define... \/ - Thomas Page

Questing Beast http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... T. H. White re-envisions the Questing Beast's role in his novel The Once and Future King. As King Pellinore describes it, the hunt of the beast has always been the burden of the Pellinores, and all Pellinores are in fact trained for the hunt from birth (a training which does not seem to extend much beyond finding the beast's fewmets; Pellinore, as described by White, is more of a comic character than a great hunter or knight). Having searched fruitlessly all his life for the beast, Pellinore is convinced by his friend Sir Grummore Grummursum to drop his quest. However, when it turns out later that the beast had been pining away for lack of attention, King Pellinore nurses it back to health and resumes his Sisyphean hunt. Later, it falls in love with Sir Palomides, who has disguised himself and Grummore as a beast in order to raise Pellinore's spirits when the real Glatisant cannot be found. White explains that this is the reason for which Palomides hunts the beast later in Malory's work. Pellinore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Dragon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... In the book An Instinct for Dragons[8] anthropologist David E. Jones suggests a hypothesis that humans just like monkeys have inherited instinctive reactions to snakes, large cats and birds of prey. Dragons have features that are combinations of these three. An instinctive fear for these three would explain why dragons with similar features occur in stories from independent cultures on all continents , St. Patrick banishes all snakes from Ireland Pious legend credits St. Patrick with banishing snakes from the island,[55] chasing them into the sea after they assailed him during a 40-day fast he was undertaking on top of a hill,.[56] In religious iconography this myth is reminiscent of Siddharta's experience during the trance in which he became realized as Buddha, inverting the snake Mucalinda's protection of the spiritualist from rainwater;[57] Patrick being evangelist of Christianity in Ireland, his story also draws on the mythography of the staff of Moses, messenger of Yahweh to gentile Egyptians, becoming a snake, swallowing the snakes manifested by the pharoah of Egypt's court sorcerors, considered in Christian terms to be pagan religious officials succumbing to the Judeo-Christian God's superiority.[58] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 12 -13 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrock... , sort 13th warrior bears borg bicameral - Thomas Page

Matter of ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Matter_of_Britain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Avalon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , 4 -21 sort House_of_Plantagenet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows... 10 -31 the_wars_of_the_roses_the_fall_of_the_plantagenets_and_the_rise_of_the_tudors http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows... Dan_Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Medieval Legends http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 11 -27 ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

5 -14 St George ... Saint_George_and_the_dragon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [ http://www.louvre.fr/en... Golden_Legend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Romance_(heroic_literature) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Saint_George_and_the_Dragon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Knight-errant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 11 -8 http://friendfeed.com/art-roo... - Thomas Page

10 -31 sort The Dragons of Eden http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... [[ 11 -15 Battle of Evermore http://youtu.be/lnYQkGe... - Thomas Page

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Category:Literary_techniques http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 5 -14 Alliteration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Allusion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is an economical device, a figure of speech that uses a relatively short space to draw upon the ready stock of ideas, cultural memes or emotion already associated with a topic. Cultural_literacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... 5 -26 sort http://www.nytimes.com/2014... - Thomas Page

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10 -21 Damsels . Divas , Dames ... [ sort Guinevere http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

10 -21 sort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Mark Twain http://friendfeed.com/citizen... [[ Nobility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

dudley-do-right http://friendfeed.com/citizen... Damsels in Distress 11 -7 http://friendfeed.com/citizen... Soap Opera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Thomas Page

Do Right , Passing Muster , Mustering (Virtue-Courage) [ Useage of Amplified Self (Privilege - Nobility)[[ 10 -21 Noblesse oblige http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... is a French phrase literally meaning "nobility obliges". ~ In ethical discussion, it is sometimes used to summarize a moral economy wherein privilege must be balanced by duty towards those who lack such privilege or who cannot perform such duty. ~ a noble person performs services for others not for gain or recognition, but simply because it was the right thing to do ~ Sarpedon exhorts Glaucus thus: "’Tis ours, the dignity they give to grace / The first in valour, as the first in place; / That when with wondering eyes our confidential bands / Behold our deeds transcending our commands, / Such, they may cry, deserve the sovereign state, / Whom those that envy dare not imitate!" ~ 10 -23 https://friendfeed.com/citizen... - Thomas Page