Few words are coined in isolation and many neologisms lean on metaphor to capture something important about the period in time. The word ‘bait’, for example, simply means an attractive morsel of food, ...
"Narcissus" by Caravaggio (c. 1598). Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain What is an allegory? An allegory (Greek, "a speaking about something else") is a complete and cohesive narrative, for ...