ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What is symbolism? Symbolism refers to the use of an action, object or name to represent an idea or quality. It’s essentially the act of taking something that’s usually concrete and associating it with a symbol to give it a new or greater significance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Symbolism is the idea that things represent other things. What we mean by that is that we can look at something-let’s say, the color red-and conclude that it represents not the color red itself but something beyond it: for example, passion, or love, or devotion. Or maybe the opposite: infidelity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Personification allegory is a type of allegory in which a fictional character represents a concept or a type. The character Everyman in the medieval play of that name and the Lover in The Romance of the Rose are figures of personification allegory.

Detailed explanation-4: -A symbol is anything that stands for, or represents, something else. In a story, a character, an action, an object, or an animal can be symbolic. Often these symbols stand for something abstract, like a force of nature, a condition of the world, or an idea.

Detailed explanation-5: -A symbol is anything that hints at something else, usually something abstract, such as an idea or belief. A literary symbol is an object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.