You've got an attention span so impressive that people actually want to study you. But you don't have time for that; you're too busy coding, or tinkering, or thinking, or obsessively trying make the world a better place through invention with that savant-like brain of yours.
User: A symbol is _____. an intentional departure from the normal order, construction, or meaning of words something that is itself and also stands for something else a literal and concrete representation of an experience of the senses or of an object known by the senses.
Symbol. An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself. The glass unicorn in The Glass Menagerie, the rocking horse in The Rocking-Horse Winner, the road in Frost's The Road Not Taken--all are symbols in this sense.