Select the correct answer. Which description best defines a contextual symbol?
It conveys only the surface meaning of an object, person, action, or situation.
It recurs in a variety of genres and in works by various writers.
It’s specific to a single artistic work and doesn’t overlap with other similar works.
It’s a symbol known throughout a particular culture.

It’s specific to a single artistic work and doesn’t overlap with other similar works.

b

explanation:

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .