Allegory

(noun.) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor.

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• It was an allegory, representing Mr. Davis in the act of signing a secession act or some such document. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Such tales may possibly have a mystical interpretation, but the young are incapable of understanding allegory. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• The allegory has a political as well as a philosophical meaning. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It was plain to see, as Mr. Bob Sawyer remarked in a style of Eastern allegory on a subsequent occasion, that she was 'getting the steam up. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The composite animal in Book IX is an allegory of the parts of the soul. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• All similes and allegories concerning her began and ended with birds. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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