allegory

/ˈæl.ɘˌɡoʊɹ.i/

Misollar

That's an allegory. Do you know what that is?
Ibn Tufail also criticized Islam through a literary process called allegory.
Chess, allegory of a war, is a game of attack and defense.

ot noun

The representation of abstract principles by characters or figures.
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.
A category that retains some of the structure of the category of binary relations between sets, representing a high-level generalisation of that category.

Manbalar: Wiktionary (Free Dictionary API orqali), Datamuse, Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR), MyMemory.