An allegorical tale is a story that uses symbols and metaphors to convey a deeper or hidden meaning. It often presents abstract concepts or moral lessons through fictional characters and events. Full definition
The simple love story set on a pastoral landscape becomes a profound allegorical tale of harmony and discontinuity, love and hate, hopes and fears, and good and evil. (filmsite.org)
An eerie allegorical tale told largely through dialogue, The Childhood of Jesus is a literary feat - a novel of ideas that is also a tender, compelling narrative. (bookbrowse.com)
Though written too broadly to serve as the powerful allegorical tale writer / director Christina Yao intends, this historical epic is just compelling enough to be taken on its own terms. (rottentomatoes.com)