fourth assignment

Metaphor- when a word or phrase is applied to an object to which it is not literally applicable.
"...I feel the darkness rushing past my breast past the cow; I begin to rush upon the darkness but the cow stops me..."
The darkness can not actually rush past him.
The reason why the author mught have put this in there is that Dewey Dell is afraid. Addie has just passed away and he has no idea what to do. I think it shows that Addie is the head of the family and that without her everyone is lost.

Symbolism- use of an object to represent ideas.
There is a scene in the book when the Bundren family starts their journey accross the mississippi and the wagon they're on falls into the river. I think that that scene could symbolize Addie's rebirth because in some way author or directors in movies make it so seems like that.

Another symbolism in the book and a very obvious one is when Cash is building his mother's coffin, at the beginning of the book we find out she is terribly sick but we know that she eventually goes away when we learn about Cash.