This is the literary term I mentioned to you in class. When you read or experience the storm scene in King Lear you will sense how the storm itself is an extraordinarily powerful objective correlative.
So, get to the storm scene!
Objective Correlative: An outward set of objects, a situation, or a chain of events corresponding to an inward experience and evoking this experience in the reader. The term frequently appears in modern criticism in discussions of authors' intended effects on the emotional responses of readers.
This term was originally used by T. S. Eliot in his 1919 essay "Hamlet."