Comments on: Theme and Symbolism Thesaurus https://writershelpingwriters.net/2010/10/symbolism-thesaurus-entry-collection/ Helping writers become bestselling authors Tue, 07 Jan 2025 13:14:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Symbolism in Fiction – DuCentillion https://writershelpingwriters.net/2010/10/symbolism-thesaurus-entry-collection/#comment-621883 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 18:06:51 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=1473#comment-621883 […] Symbolism and Motif Thesaurus ~ WRITERS HELPING WRITERS® […]

]]> By: ANGELA ACKERMAN https://writershelpingwriters.net/2010/10/symbolism-thesaurus-entry-collection/#comment-236068 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 18:02:51 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=1473#comment-236068 In reply to A.K. Leigh.

Thanks so much!

]]> By: A.K. Leigh https://writershelpingwriters.net/2010/10/symbolism-thesaurus-entry-collection/#comment-235819 Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:44:29 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=1473#comment-235819 Brilliant, as always.

]]> By: Emotion-Charged Settings - Writer.ly Community : Writer.ly Community https://writershelpingwriters.net/2010/10/symbolism-thesaurus-entry-collection/#comment-47757 Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:39:12 +0000 https://writershelpingwriters.net/?p=1473#comment-47757 […] Symbols hold power. They can foreshadow what is to come and trigger an emotional reaction from characters. If your hero grew up on his grandparents’ farm, he may feel a surge of lightness at noticing a symbol from that time, like an old tractor tire converted to a flower rockery in someone’s backyard.  Common symbols will also have an emotional effect on your reader. If your character passes a graveyard on the way home from work, it brings about the feeling of death. The reader on some level will be ill at ease and may expect that something bad will happen. (For a list of symbols to use in writing, check out the Symbolism Thesaurus.) […]

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