What is the definition of symbolism?

a. the use of a word or object to represent something else

b. the use of a metaphor to compare two things that are different

c. the use of color to describe a scene or an action

d. the use of words to describe the sense of taste or smell

go to crash course lititure and go to seconed page and it shows a video about that

onto a large boat, and mark the water level that the boat sinks to. then, take the elephant out and put a bunch of marked weights onto the boat until it reaches the same water level. add up the masses of the weights to get the weight of the elephant.