Think of an object and an action someone can do with that object to show the character's feelings, rather than directly stating the feelings. In this video, we look at The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins, the prequel to The Hunger Games, for examples of emotions reflected in the objects characters use. This is called the objective correlative.
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