symbolism
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There’s more to this outcome than Resistance-pleasing symbolism, though.
From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026
Similar to the way Lamar’s performance was laden with symbolism about Black history, life and death under the American police state, Bad Bunny placed cultural tributes in plain sight.
From Salon • Feb. 9, 2026
In their fiction—mostly novels for Woolf, short stories for Mansfield—they experimented by replacing linear narrative and descriptive detail with suggestion and symbolism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
The Forbidden City was the heart of imperial China for more than 500 years and remains laden with symbolism of its powerful past.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
Then when we started learning about symbolism in Mr. Bonner’s language arts class this year—a concrete representation of a thing or idea that is more abstract in nature—it clicked: the trunk wasn't an actual trunk.
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
Vocabulary lists containing symbolism
Literary Devices & Figures of Speech - Introductory
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Poetry: Literary Devices
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The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 3
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