The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger

Images Images are words that create pictures in the reader’s mind or suggest special impressions. Images can be visual or sensual- smell, taste, touch, or color. “I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, on a white heal-all holding up a moth like a white piece of rigid satin cloth.” Frost- “Design”

Symbol A symbol is a concrete object, person, place or action that operates on at least 2 levels: it functions as itself and it stands for a wider meaning.

Motif Motifs are pieces of a story (or throughout literature in general) that keep repeating during the course of the story. Motifs can be images or symbols or themes. A motif in Huck Finn is the Mississippi river. What is the river a symbol of?

What are some reasons why you think authors use images, symbols, and motifs in literature? to focus attention on what the writer wants the reader to notice to create internal patterns within the literary work to create a structural unity to offer emphasis to add interest/connection to the language to lend continuity to the piece of literature and between the piece an other pieces

Examples to think about... Allie’s baseball glove carousel ducks in the park Holden himself Holden’s red hat job as a “catcher” movies Pencey Prep Sally Stradlater