"Allegorical" refers to something that carries a hidden or symbolic meaning. It is often used to describe stories, poems, or art that use characters, events, or objects to represent deeper ideas or messages. Full definition
While Martha Mayer Erlebacher has certainly studied the history of art, and has looked hard at the rich tradition of allegorical painting, she is neither a neo-Classicist nor a rigid adherent of any theory of contemporary narrative painting. (artforum.com)
There's a transparency to the performances that transcends naturalism: you sense that the actors are not only playing themselves (more so than usual), but also that they're playing themselves as allegorical figures in a metaphor for their lives. (filmfreakcentral.net)
From Ambrose in the fourth century A.D. to Thomas Hayne and John Milton in the seventeenth century, there have been repeated attempts to maintain a proper «biblicity» for Samson by means of allegorical interpretation. (religion-online.org)