Symbols and Symbolism
Decoding Creative Non-Fiction
1. This level of decoding symbols is thru tapping individual experience.
2. This type of symbol is created by a writer for a particular work.
3. This level of decoding symbols is based on understanding the context of the material.
4. This level of decoding symbols is influenced by beliefs, norms and traditions.
5. This type of symbol is widely accepted and used by writers.
II. Biography and autobiography and memoir
6. This genre of non-fiction seeks to recollect a memory.
7. This is a piece of non-fiction which narrates the life of another person.
8. If an author himself write down his account, he will produce what non-fiction piece?
9. This type of biography are for important icons and figures of history like heroes and leaders.
10. This type of biography is geared to preserve the fame of a notable person.
11. This type of biography is intended to revere the lives of authors, writers and artists
12. This type of biography is used as an open resource for other biographies.
Enumeration
13-14 types of symbol
15-17 levels of decoding symbol
18-20. types of biography
Defining symbols
A writer often uses a concrete
object to express an abstract
idea, a quality or a disbelief.
A symbol may appeal to a
reader’s emotion and can
provide away t o express an
idea, communicate a message
or clarify meaning.
Defining symbols
Something that stands for itself,
but also something larger than
itself,
It maybe a person, an animal, an
inanimate object or an action
Types of Symbol
CONVENTIONAL SYMBOLS
Symbols that are widely accepted
and used by many writers
PRIVATE SYMBOLS
Symbols created by an individual
writer for a particular work of
literature
Ways how symbols are interpreted
PERSONAL
Meanings that are uniquely
associated with our experiences
CONTEXTUAL
A private meaning created by an
author
CULTURAL
Meaning uniquely influenced by
culture
Examples of conventional
Symbols
Example of Symbol
interpreted in the cultural
level
DOG
China- represents faithfulness
India and South Asian Cultures-
symbolizes impurity
Symbols and fairy tales
What is the significance
of the red apple in
Snow white and how
does it resemble to the
story of Adam and Eve
in the bible?
Symbols and fairy tales
Why do you think of all
the things that
Cinderella has to leave
as a trace for the prince
was her shoe?
Why we need symbols in
writing
Symbols add levels of
meaning creating depth in
a text.
Symbols lend a universal
meaning and a grandeur to
the theme and characters
of a literary work.
Why we need symbols in writing
Symbols pique the interest
of the readers as they
interact within the text
and when symbols are
interpreted, readers
formulate their own
meaning.
Why we need symbols in writing
Symbols are keys to the
intent and mind of the
author
Symbols engage readers
as it offer creative
opportunity.
Viewing Activity
Annabelle Lee by
Edgar Allan Poe
Post –reading Activity
1.Who was the persona in
the poem?
2. Who was Annabelle Lee?
3. What happened to
Annabelle Lee as suggested
in the poem?
Symbols used Projected Meanings
Sea Emptiness and
desolation
Kingdom by the Power and control
sea
sepulchre Death and horror,
Annabel Lee Grief, death, lost
love, pure body
and love
CW3- Self and Symbol
Think of a symbol that
best represent yourself .
Draw the symbol in your
paper and provide a one-
paragraph description
about it.
