allegory

IPA: ˈæɫʌgɔri

(rhetoric) A narrative in which a character, place, or event is used to deliver a broader message about real-world issues and occurrences.
A picture, book, or other form of communication using such representation.
A symbolic representation which can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, usually a moral or political one.
(mathematics, category theory) A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.

Examples of "allegory" in Sentences

The second allegory is the religious one, and it is more complex.
But to tie the book down to this allegory is to do it a reductive injustice.
It sounds like it is rich in allegory, which should be part of a balanced diet.
The ketchup allegory is brilliant, but I wish Summers knew how to use “comprise.”
The allegory is so interchangeable over the decades and speaks to that inner paranoia of whatever society is watching it.
But the allegory is a continued metaphor, in which the circumstances are palpably often purely imagery, while the thing signified is altogether real.
I use the term allegory reluctantly because allegorical figures, like those found in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress or Spenser's Faerie Queene tend to be one-dimensional, lacking interiority and nuance.
Most of all, the show's universe was flimsy and under-developed, the result of too much attention paid to thin allegory and facile real-world parallels, and not enough energy diverted to making Galactica's universe its own living creation.
To become figurable-that is to say, visible in the first place, accessible to our imaginations - the classes have to be able to become in some sense characters in their own right: this is the sense in which the term allegory in our title is to be taken as a working hypothesis.