The whole, for instance, or current chapter symbolic (9)
I believe the answer is:
allegoric
'symbolic' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'the whole for instance or current chapter' is the wordplay.
'the whole' becomes 'all' (I've seen this before).
'for instance' becomes 'eg' (short for 'exempli gratia', 'for example' in Latin).
'current' becomes 'I' (symbol for electric current).
'chapter' becomes 'c' (abbreviation).
'all'+'eg'+'or'+'i'+'c'='ALLEGORIC'
(Other definitions for allegoric that I've seen before include "Figurative" , "serving as symbol" , "with symbolic meaning" .)