Universal Literary Symbols. Universal symbols are symbols that nearly all people can relate to regardless of their culture, time period, gender, race, ethnicity or religious background. We relate to these symbols because we automatically make connections between the object and the concept or idea that it represents.
A symbol is a person or a concept that represents, stands for or suggests another idea, visual image, belief, action or material entity. Symbols take the form of words, sounds, gestures, ideas or visual images and are used to convey other ideas and beliefs. For example, a red octagon may be a symbol for "STOP". On a map, a blue line might represent a river. Numerals are symbols for numbers.
and with the info i gave you, you would be able yo under stand seeing as the "red octagon" is all over the world as a stop sign the universal symbols are used so that EVERYONE from WHERE EVER can under stand them the same way.
Why is this in the art section-
Express irrational ideas using realistic techniques.
The Romanesque period is the first since archaic ans Classical Greece to take its name from a artistic style rather than from politics or geography.
In Romanesque period, there was a sharp increase in trade. Romanesque is a style of architecture developed in Italy and western Europe between the Roman and Gothic styles after 1000 AD. The projecting transept marks Pisa Cathedral as Romanesque.
I think that the answer would be C.