Image, Symbol ,and Motif

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Image, Symbol ,and Motif

• Cyrano de Bergerac

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Image

• Words and descriptions that create pictures in
  the readers mind or suggest special impressions.
• Generally evokes one of the five senses.
• For Example
• The pig wallowed in
• the thick brown mud.
• Her lips were red as licorice.

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Symbol

• An image, object, color, place or character that
  represents a larger or more abstract idea or
  concept.
• What else could an image
• of a pig stand for?

What does justice look like? Does it have a
symbol?
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For example

• What are possible meanings of the fire imagery
  used in Lord of the Flies?
• Why do you think William Golding uses it
  repeatedly?
• Can you think of some other examples?

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Motif

• A recurring (or repeated) pattern of features
  objects, images, symbols in a literary work.
• Motifs help the author to develop important ideas
  and themes in a literary work.
• For example The use fish symbols and imagery in
  Big Fish.

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Why are these techniques used?

• To draw attention on what the writer wants the
  reader to notice.
• To create patterns within the work
• To create emphasis