Symbolism

In a story, what could a storm symbolize?

• love

• happiness

• danger

• luck

The color red symbolizes what two emotions?

• sadness

• happiness

• love

• anger

This images symbolizes what?

• two-faced

• happiness

• drama; theatre

• sadness

This symbol symbolizes what?

• practice of medicine

• law; justice

• equality

• strength

This image symbolizes what?

• smoke detection

• aliens

• nuclear waste

• biohazard

What can water symbolize?

• Liquid

• Purity

• Good luck

• Anger

Symbols represent...

• ...abstract concepts.

• ...layers of meaning.

• ...something other than the object itself.

• ...All of the above.

Define the term Symbolism.

• Person, place, thing or event that stands for itself and for something beyond itself as well.

• a word used to describe the difference between what we expect and what actually happens.

A well-known symbol that has been handed down over time; public symbols; universal symbols

• Inherited Symbol

• Invented Symbol

• Ambiguity

• Verbal Irony

Taking a new object, character, or event and making it the embodiment of some human concern by attaching meaning to it

• Invented Symbol

• Inherited Symbol

• Rising Action

• Falling Action