Symbolism: Generally, anything that represents, stads for, something else. Usually a symbol is something concrete- such as an aboject, character, action or scene- that represents something more abstract.
Example: The whip in Frederick Douglass.
The whip in the book stands for many things, like suffering, cruelty and injustice. Throught the book we see how the whipe is represented as a bad thing. For example like the first time he saw a whipping in his life. It was the one when his aunt got whipped for no reason. This was injustice. But also when their masters would threaten them that if they did not work they would beat them, that was injustice.
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