allegory

He insisted that he had not intended the novel to be political allegory, while knowing full well that it would be taken as such.

A “Crime of the Century” that takes on mythic dimensions as an allegory of a city in decline.

They are, after all, carefully selected “types,” and to isolate them runs the risk of seeing the book as an allegory.

Seizing on this scene, critics called the novel “an allegory of our violent times.”

By using allegory, Percy both engages and sidesteps difficult questions.

Many rabbis have regarded the formation of Adam and Eve and their adventure as an allegory.

So that, besides the allegory, we have four dimensions of matter instead of three.

But the spirit of allegory, which has never been lost, may be traced throughout these barbarous discourses.

Its allegory, its learned literary allusions, its delving into obscure historic events, preclude any hope of popular success.

Allegory is a narrative in which material things and circumstances are used to illustrate and enforce high spiritual truths.