Answer: Symbolism takes something that is usually concrete and associates or affixes it to something else in order to give it a new and more significant meaning.
<span>Compare the ways Silas Marner and the peddler are treated as suspects in a robbery..
(1) </span><span>Both received an apology for the false accusation.
</span>(2) Both are innocent.
<span>(3) Both were found guilty.</span>
The part of the excerpt from the Gettysburg in which Abraham Lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens would be : ‘The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add and detract.
