what is literary icons
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Icon , in literature , a description of a person or thing, usually using a figure of speech . To semioticians, icons are signs, verbal or otherwise, with extra-systemic resemblances to the persons or things they denote. The Verbal Icon: Studies in the Meaning of Poetry (1954) by W.K. Wimsatt is an important New Criticism text on the subject.
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