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M.A. Sem-1 | PG-C-ENG-415 | Prompt Engineering with Chatbots | Worksheet Responses

For the purposes of this exercise, I am mainly going to work with the Google Gemini Chatbot, specifically, the 3.8 Flash model. Activity 1 – What is a Prompt? A prompt is any question, instruction, statement, or command given to a Chatbot. Prompt 1 –  What is symbolism in literature? The response generated for this prompt briefly explains the following: meaning of symbolism, core types of symbols (universal, contextual, symbolic characters) with examples from various literary works distinctions between symbol, metaphor, allegory, and motif functions of symbols in literary analysis Prompt 2 –  Explain Symbolism in literature using examples from George Orwell’s 1984. The response generated for this prompt explains the following: significance of symbolism in the novel’s narrative key symbols of the novel and what they symbolize tabular summary of the symbols What changed between the two responses? Naturally, the first response had a broader focus and the second re...