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dream allegory

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dream vision

 
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–noun
a conventional device used in narrative verse, employed esp. by medieval poets, that presents a story as told by one who falls asleep and dreams the events of the poem: Dante's Divine Comedy exemplifies the dream vision in its most developed form.
Also called dream allegory.

Origin:
1905–10
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