Words similar to allegory

Example sentences for: allegory

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They ingeniously recombine elements of fairy tale, religious allegory (Harry as the chosen one), half-remembered childhood reading, and pop culture (including, fairly explicitly in the case of Potter, the Star Wars cycle itself) into something new, fresh, and irresistible.
If my book-loving peers would rather spend their beach reading on plodding thrillers than on the heart-stopping adventure stories of Philip Pullman (author of the "Dark Materials" trilogy), say, or the scintillating allegory of Norton Juster ( The Phantom Tollbooth ), then nothing could be done about it, short of reading aloud to them when they were laid up with the flu (which does work, but you lose your voice).
Critics also like the way the story has been rewritten to add some psychological depth (it's now an Oedipal allegory).
Critics applaud this anti-Soviet political allegory wrapped in a romantic drama, which is set in '50s Russia.
It is impossible not to see Kowloon Tong as an allegory.