Words similar to allegory

Example sentences for: allegory

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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 applaud this anti-Soviet political allegory wrapped in a romantic drama, which is set in '50s Russia.
It portrays the Medici clan led by Lorenzo the Magnificent in what is in fact an allegory of an ecumenical council with Pope Pius II in Florence.
Panning Mason & Dixon, the New Republic 's James Wood declares Thomas Pynchon's penchant for allegory tiresome and his alleged cleverness to be overwrought and heavy-handed.
Instead, her books get their depth from a combination of allegory and genuine human interactions that haven't been pre-chewed.