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Symbols in Literature

Symbols in Literature. Symbols…. Allegories and Parables are symbolic ergo A symbol is the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea. Symbols come in two kinds:. Symbols that are universal to all literature:

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Symbols in Literature

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  1. Symbols in Literature

  2. Symbols… Allegories and Parables are symbolic ergo • A symbol is the use of a concrete object to represent an abstract idea. • Symbols come in two kinds: • Symbols that are universal to all literature: • The most familiar of these to us are the 26 letters of the alphabet. • Others have been used for the same things so long that they have those meanings and all authors know them. If they are using them they are accepting the meaning or playing with it. • Symbols that are unique to the work: • These symbols are developed by the author for their own purposes through the significance they are given. • These symbols can be a hybrid of a unique symbol added to a universal symbol.

  3. Symbols in “The Blue Stones” • Unique or universal symbol? • Discuss the story with a group, what do you believe that the blue stones represent? Be ready to defend your answer by taking information and details from the story. • Are their other symbols in the story? Are the blue stones a hybrid? If so what part is universal.

  4. Round 1 Round 1

  5. Colors – 10 points • White • innocence, life, light, purity, or enlightenment Next Question

  6. Colors – 20 points • Black • seen as a cold and negative aspect suggesting passivity, death, ignorance, or evil; black hens are used in witchcraft as are black cats Next Question

  7. Colors – 30 points • Purple • royalty, bruising or pain Next Question

  8. Colors – 40 points • Red • immoral; the color of the life principle, blood, passion, emotion, danger, or daring; often associated with fire Next Question

  9. Colors– 50 points • Blue • cool, calm, peaceful; an insubstantial color in the real world except as translucency, the void of heavens Next Question

  10. Nature – 10 points • Spring • birth, new beginning Next Question

  11. Nature – 20 points • Water • washes away guilt, origin of life, regeneration, vehicle of cleansing Next Question

  12. Plot – 30 points • Gold • the perfect metal; a reflection of heavenly light; it suggest the sun-fertility, wealth, dominion; it is a male principle Next Question

  13. Nature – 40 points • Darkness • evil, ignorance, danger Next Question

  14. Nature– 50 points • Weeds • evil (hemlock, pigweed, etc), wildness/outcasts of society Next Question

  15. Weather – 10 points • Rain • sadness or despair or new life; a symbol of celestial influences the Earth receives Next Question

  16. Vocabulary – 20 points • Fog/Mist • prevents clear vision or thinking; represents isolation; mist is often the symbol of the indeterminate phase in development when shapes have yet to be defined; they are preludes to important revelations or prologues to manifestations Next Question

  17. Weather – 30 points • Thunder: • the voice of God or gods Next Question

  18. Weather – 40 points • Wind and Storms • violent human emotions Next Question

  19. Weather – 50 points • Rainbows: • intermediaries and pathways between Heaven and Earth; mostly are generally heralds of good and are linked with cycles of rebirth, they may also serve as prologues to disturbance Next Question

  20. Wilderness – 10 points • Dove • peace, purity, simplicity Next Question

  21. Wilderness – 20 points • Lion • a solar symbol, power, pride Next Question

  22. Wilderness – 30 points • Owl • wisdom, rational knowledge; messenger of death Next Question

  23. Wilderness– 40 points • West • is the land of evening, old age, and the descending passage of the sun Next Question

  24. Wilderness– 50 points • Fox • slyness, cleverness Next Question

  25. Man – 10 points • Eyes • windows to the soul or barometer of emotions Next Question

  26. Man – 20 points • Mask • externalize demonic tendencies Next Question

  27. Man– 30 points • Chain • symbolizes the bond which connect Heaven and earth or ties together two extremes or beings Next Question

  28. Miscellaneous – 40 points • Blood • symbolizes all the integral qualities of fire and the heat and vitality inherent in the sun; it also corresponds to vital and bodily heat Next Question

  29. Miscellaneous– 50 points • Tower of Babel • confusion, human pride, resulted in multiple languages Next Question

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