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Define: SymbolismWhy do you think authors use symbols in a text?
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March 10, 2015
Symbolism and Allegory
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Explain what the Following Symbols
Mean:
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A symbol is often an event, object, person or animal to which
an extraordinary meaning or significance has been attached.
Symbols
Pair/share: What ideas do these pictures symbolize?
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Symbols can be inherited or invented.
Example: The Statue of Liberty Came to symbolize freedom for people
immigrating to the United States by way of Ellis Island.
Where do Symbols Come From?
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Symbols allow writers to suggest layers of meanings and possibilities that a simple literal statement could not convey as well.
Why Create Symbols in Literature?
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Symbols allow writers to convey an idea with layers of meaning without having to explain those layers in the text.
Why Create Symbols in Literature?
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A symbol is like a pebble cast into a pond: It sends out ever widening
ripples.
Pair/Share: Tell your partner a symbol from one of our readings this year or last year.
Why Create Symbols in Literature?
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An Allegory is a story in which characters, settings and actions
stand for something beyond themselves.
Allegory
The Wizard of Oz was an allegory for the political and economic systems in America
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In some types of Allegories, the characters and setting represent abstract ideas of moral qualities.
In other types, characters and situations stand for historical figures and events.
Allegory
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Characters and places in allegories often have names that reveal their
symbolic significance:
CHARACTERS• Death
• Vanity• Good
Deeds• Ignorance
PLACES
• Celestial City• Vanity Fair• Hill of
Difficulty• Valley of Fear
Allegory
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1. An Allegory can be read on one level for its literal or straightforward meaning
2. An allegory can be read for its symbolic, or allegorical meaning
Allegory Meanings
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Allegories are often intended to:1. teach a moral lesson
or
2. make a comment about goodness and corruption
Teachings
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What do you think Everyman, the main character of the allegory, stands for?
What comment about fellowship, beauty, and strength does this allegory make?
Quick Check: Everyman
EverymanOne day, Everyman is
summoned by Death to give an accounting of his life. Everyman ask his friends Fellowship, Beauty, Strength, and Good Deeds to go with him to tell Death that he has led a good life. Only Good Deeds stays with him to the end.
—summary of “Everyman”
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Symbolism vs. AllegorySymbol Allegory
• A word, place, character or object that means something beyond what it is on a literal level
• interconnected symbols
• nearly every element of the narrative has a meaning beyond the literal level,
i.e., everything in the narrative is a symbol that relates to other symbols within the story
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Before Reading Questions
TOGETHER
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KsAvtHsyY0
The Terrible Things By: Eve BuntingAn Allegory for the
Holocaust
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Page 176 – 177 Analyze the Allegory
On Your Own
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Think of a movie or book that utilizes a symbol (you cannot use an example from this powerpoint!)1. Name the movie/book2. Identify the symbol3. Identify the literal meaning of the symbol4. Identify the figurative (symbolic) meaning of
the symbol5. Explain why the symbol was used
Independent Practice
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1. A symbol is _____________________.2. Symbols can be _______, _________,
__________, or _________.3. Symbols represent _______________________.4. Name the four things that can be symbols.5. Symbols allow writers to __________.6. An allegory is ______ in which
_______________and _______ stand for something beyond themselves.
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