For 10 points, give this term for an extended metaphor used to symbolize an outside idea, entity, or message, such as Plato's one about a cave.
Queen Elizabeth I and the Tudor dynasty are represented with this device in an epic poem about Britomart and the Recrosse Knight by Edmund Spenser called The Faerie Queen. It is employed in a novella in which Boxer serves Napoleon the pig. That work, Animal Farm, uses it to represent Stalinism, while John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress uses this device to represent journey of a Christian. For 10 points, give this term for an extended metaphor used to symbolize an outside idea, entity, or message, such as Plato's one about a cave.
Queen Elizabeth I and the Tudor dynasty are represented with this device in an epic poem about Britomart and the Recrosse Knight by Edmund Spenser called The Faerie Queen.
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