allegory

Its roots lie in the medieval stonemasons' guilds, and members still meet in "lodges" to carry out secretive initiation rituals and ceremonies based on allegories such as the building of King Solomon's Temple.

The allegory is a tad thick: Humanity rots inside the gates, dignity stands tall outside.

If I wrote this in a book in 1965 … if it got published at all, it would be published as an allegory, like Animal Farm,” he said.

The LP synthesized decades of popular music — soul, jazz, R&B, rock ‘n’ roll — to create a new musical language, while its depth-filled lyrics are a rich text full of allegories and religious imagery.

Scholars have long interpreted Gast’s infamous work as an allegory about Manifest Destiny — that the U.S. had a God-given right to seize as much of the American continent as it could.