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Allegory
What is it?



Examples
  • John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress", a prose narrative, is an allegory of man's spiritual salvation.

  • Herbert Spenser's poem "The Faerie Queene", besides being a chivalric romance, is a commentary on morals and manners in 16th-century England as well as a national epic.

Answer

A story that is told to explain or teach something, especially a long and complicated story with an underlying meaning different from the surface meaning of the story itself. The parables in the Bible are allegories.