Do the Objective Correlative

No, the Objective Correlative isn’t a dance step, so far as I know. It’s a literary term that can be hard to comprehend. Let’s see if I can explain it in words even I can understand.

Imagine you’re an author writing a scene in which a boy encounters a rather scary bear. You want to convey to the reader the emotion felt by the boy when he senses the bear is watching him from somewhere, but he can’t see the animal. You could simply state the boy was scared. That would violate the principle of sh...