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Symbolism
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A symbol is an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached a special meaning.
What Is a Symbol?
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Public symbols• have been inherited, or
handed down over time
• show up in art and literature
Where Do We Get Symbols?
• are widely known
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What does each of these symbols stand for? Why do you think they have taken on the meanings they have?
justice luck love
Where Do We Get Symbols?
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Invented symbols• come about when writers
make a character, object, or event stand for some human concern
• sometimes become well known and gain the status of public symbol
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Writers use symbols to• suggest layers of meaning that a simple, literal
statement could never convey• speak more powerfully to the reader’s emotions
and imagination• make their stories rich and memorable
Symbols in Literature
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What might the cake symbolize in this passage?
What is your emotional response to the description of the cake?
Symbols in LiteratureQuick Check
The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on it. . . . An épergne or centrepiece of some kind was in the middle of this cloth; it was so heavily overhung with cobwebs that its form was quite undistinguishable; . . . I saw speckled-legged spiders with blotchy bodies running home to it, and running out from it. . . .
“What do you think that is?” she asked me, again pointing with her stick; “that, where those cobwebs are?” . . .
“It’s a great cake. A bride-cake. Mine!” from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens [End of Section]