Is a work of fiction in which the symbols characters and event come to represent in a somewhat point by point fashion, a different metaphysical political or social situation

What was the main idea or message taught by the ballad, "king john and the abbot of canterbury"?

Who was the last member of the stuart line whose death left britain without a clear successor? a. george i b. queen anne c. charles ii d. queen elizabeth

The play, doctor faustus, opens with a prologue. by describing faustus's beginnings as a child "base of stock" and his end as his "waxen wings" melted when "heaven conspired" to stop him, the chorus subtly calls to audience's minds, as they begin to view the play, the commonly held idea of the great chain of being the pact with the devil the seven deadly sins the renaissance man