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• A symbol is often an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to
which we have attached extraordinary meaning and
significance.
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What Symbols Stand For
• We use a rectangle of dyed cloth to symbolize a country.
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• We use a picture of a skull and crossbones to
symbolize poison or danger.
• We send red roses as a symbol of love.
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Where Do Symbols Come From?
• The most familiar symbols have been inherited, meaning, they have been handed down over time.
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• For example: no one really knows who first thought of using a lion as a symbol of power, courage and domination.
• However, once these qualities were associated with the animal, images of lions appeared on flags, banners, coats of arms and castle walls.
• The lion became a public symbol that shows up in art and literature, even today!
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• People through out history have endowed ordinary objects with
meanings far beyond their simple meaning.
A crown symbolizes royalty.
An olive branch
symbolizes peace.
Five linked rings
symbolize the
Olympics.
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• Symbols can also be invented. • Example: Barbers Hill Eagles
Some invented symbols in literature have become so widely known that they often have gained the status of public symbols.
For example: Peter Pan is a symbol for eternal childhood
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Literary Symbols
• A literary symbol has literal meaning in a story, but stands for
something else.
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Why create symbols? You may ask why writers don’t just come right out
and say what they mean.• Symbols allow writers to suggest layers and layers
of meaning - possibilities that a simple, literal statement could never convey.
• A symbol is like a pebble cast into a pond: It sends out ever widening ripples of meaning.
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If something is symbolic it will most likely:
• Be repeated in the book.
• Be written in a memorable or vivid way.
• Be emphasized with imagery.
• Mean something else than what it literally is.
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Symbolism from Hatchet
• What does the wolf symbolize?
• What does the hatchet symbolize?
• What does the plane turning away symbolize?
• What does “The Secret” symbolize?
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Online Powerpoint with Examples of Symbolism