Allegory
a figurative presentation of a subject, which carries with it another meaning besides the literal one.
It is as often used in painting, sculpture, and other imitative arts as in language, although it is usually considered rhetorical. Like the fable and the par parable, it has an underlying moral. sidered rhetorical. Like the fable and the parable, it has an underlying moral. details, as in "Pilgrim's Progress."