Literary Symbols

What is symbolism?

• A pattern of sound that includes the repetition of consonant sounds

• The use of an object, person, situation, or word to represent something else (an idea) in literature

• An actor's speech, directed to the audience, that is not supposed to be heard by other actors

• Any story that attempts to explain how the world was created

Which of the following is an example of symbolism in literature?

• All of these are correct

• Fall representing growing old

• Water symbolizing rebirth

• The color black to symbolize evil

Identify what stage symbolizes

“All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

they have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,”

• world

• participants

• play

• theatre

If the sun here symbolizes human beings and sun symbolizes life what does this stanza symbolizes

“Ah Sunflower, weary of time,

Who countest the steps of the sun;

Seeking after that sweet golden clime

Where the traveler’s journey is done;”

• happy times of life

• time running out

• life cycle and their yearning for a never-ending life

• death

Identify what symbol does rainbow convey

“My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:

So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man;

So be it when I shall grow old, …”

• excitement

• happy times

• luck

• hope