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objective correlative

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objective correlative
n.
A situation or a sequence of events or objects that evokes a particular emotion in a reader or audience.
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Eliot came upon the objective correlative as a way to express symbolically and intellectually states of feeling--an aesthetic vehicle or "container" for emotion.
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The licorice her father shares with her provides an objective correlative for the bitterness of the experience that neither she nor her father could express at the time.
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