1. How does Cell One in 'Cell One' function as a symbol, and what abstractions does it come to represent?

2. Why is repeated reference to a setting necessary for it to achieve symbolic status?

3. How does Adichie use specific details about Nnamabia's experiences to build Cell One's symbolic meaning?

1. What is the difference between contextual symbols and universal symbols, and how does each function in literature?

2. How do the garden setting and Miss Brill's apartment function as contrasting symbols in 'Miss Brill'?

3. Why is it important to test archetypal symbol associations against the actual events of a story?

1. How does the repeated motif of clothing in 'Miss Brill' support the story's central symbol and characterization?

2. What effect does repeated imagery throughout a text have on theme and character development?

3. How do motifs differ from symbols in terms of frequency and scope within a work?

1. Why must writers carefully select comparison subjects when creating similes?

2. How do the three similes describing Mrs. Das in 'Interpreter of Maladies' function to develop characterization and plot?

3. What qualities must a comparison subject have for readers to successfully transfer traits to the main subject?

1. How does personification of the house in 'The Rocking-Horse Winner' create vivid imagery and convey family dysfunction?

2. What does the personification of the kitchen 'retreating' at Wuthering Heights reveal about the narrator's attitude toward the setting?

3. How does inverted personification differ from personification, and what effect does it create?

4. How do personification and inverted personification work together in Walcott's poem to shift the speaker's tone from trepidation to confidence?