0 in a way that involves using characters or events in a story, play, picture, or other work to represent moral, religious, or political qualities or ideas:
"The Pilgrim's Progress" is a vision of life told allegorically as if it were a journey.
Many people were eager to support a man who, literally and allegorically, seemed to represent a unified America.
A fantasy book series like this can become too allegorically complex or too morally simple.
