In Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, the narrator's Drawing Number One shows a shape grown-ups call a hat. In the story's world, what does that drawn shape actually refer to?

The narrator finally draws a box with holes and tells the prince the sheep is inside. Which statement keeps the sign apart from the thing it points to?

The prince tends one rose, then finds five thousand roses in a garden on Earth, then hears the fox explain his rose's value. By the end, what does the rose stand for?

In The Little Prince the prince says: "You must see to it that you pull up regularly all the baobabs, at the very first moment when they can be distinguished from the rosebushes." What do the baobabs point to?

Which recurring element in The Little Prince works as a motif rather than a single striking image?

Early on the stars mark where the prince came from. At the end he tells the pilot he will hear "five hundred million little bells" in them. What has changed?

The fox says: "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." What does "the eye" stand for here?

The fox says wheat means nothing to him, then adds: "You have hair that is the color of gold... The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you." What has the wheat become?

Seeing five thousand roses "all alike, in one single garden," the prince weeps, since his flower had said she was unique in all the world. Why does the sight hurt him?

The prince says: "What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." What does the hidden well stand for?

The switchman's roaring trains appear in one chapter only. Why is that scene an image rather than a motif?

The narrator's drawings recur: the boa that looks like a hat, the sheep the prince refuses, then the box. Across these, what has drawing come to stand for?

A sign is the word, object or image that carries the meaning, and the referent is what that sign points to.

Baobabs are pulled up each morning, drawn as a warning picture, and told as the tale of a lazy man's ruined planet. Why do they count as a motif?

The prince says he once watched the sunset forty-four times in one day. He adds that one loves the sunset when one is so sad. What do the sunsets point to?

The desert first marks the danger the pilot is in after his crash. Later it is where the well is found. What does this show about a sign?

The pilot recalls "the song of the pulley" at the well, then hears the stars as "five hundred million little bells." What do these sounds share as a motif?

The rose asks the prince for a screen and for a glass globe at night. In the world of the book, what does that globe come to stand for?

The businessman counts the stars and says that he owns them. For him, what do the stars refer to?

Which of these from The Little Prince is a referent rather than a sign?