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Allegory is defined as any work of literature in which character, action, or setting represents an abstract idea or moral concept. Many authors use allegory to make their writing more meaningful than what is simply written on the paper. Allegory is a very effect ....

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.... bloodstained wave. Then for the Danes was the woe the deeper, The sorrow sharper for Scylding earls, When they first caught sight, on the rocky sea-cliff, Of slaughtered Æscher's severed head. The water boiled in a bloody swirling With seething gore as the spearmen gazed. The trumpet sounded a martial strain; The shield-troop halted. Their eyes beheld The swimming forms of strange sea-dragons, Dim serpent shapes in the watery depths, Sea-beasts sunning on headland slopes; Snakelike monsters that oft at sunrise On evil errands scour the.” This quote is very bluntly using the lake to represent hell. Using the blood and ....