D. William Spenser's The
Faerie Queene follows the quests of several knights who seek to better
themselves, but it symbolically gives honor to Queen Elizabeth I and her
kingdom.
An allegory is a type of extended metaphor in which items or characters within the story (or even poem or play or painting) stand for something else, and what they stand for is something typically of a political nature. That said, the word “symbolically” helps us determine that “D” is the correct response because of how symbols stand for other things, and royalty can be seen as a political figures.
