An Allegory is a narration or description in which events, actions, characters, settings or objects represent specific abstractions or ideas. As such, allegories are sometimes extended allusions.
I think that paragraph means that an allegory is a story where there is something bigger behind the actual story.
The example my mom picked out is the following sentence:
“Although Chakam, El, and the King sometimes appeared separately, They were in fact one—a single entity, yet a plurality appearing as intense lights.”
Here, I use the concept of three entities, each described as a glowing cloud of light, each with it’s own distinct color, to described the concept of the Trinity.
Another illusions to the Trinity is Tom’s description of insects:
Tom interrupted himself, “I wonder why so many creatures have three sections.”
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