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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
dream vision
allegorical tale presented in the narrative framework of a dream. Especially popular in the Middle Ages, the device made more acceptable the fantastic and sometimes bizarre world of personifications and symbolic objects characteristic of medieval allegory. Well-known examples of the dream allegory include the first part of Roman de la rose (13th century); Chaucer's Book of the Duchesse (1369/70); Pearl (late 14th century); Piers Plowman (c. 1362-c. 1387), attributed to William Langland; William Dunbar's The Thissil and the Rois and The Goldyn Targe (early 16th century); and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
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