Point of View/Symbol/Allegory Flashcards
What is point of view?
The perspective from which a work is told.
What is first person point of view?
Told by a narrator who is a character in the story and who refers to themselves as “I”.
What is second person point of view?
Narrator tells the story using “you”. This casts the reader as a character in the story.
What is third person point of view?
Uses pronouns she, he, it, and they. Narrators have a perspective that keeps them at a distance and prevents them from playing a role in the story’s plot.
What is omniscient?
When a narrator knows what every character thinks and feels.
What is a limited omniscient character?
When narrators only know and relate what one major or minor character thinks and feels.
What is an omniscient narrator?
Shares what all characters think and feel instead of limiting the narrator’s perspective to just one character.
What is a symbol?
A setting, an object, or an event in a story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something significant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature.
What is an allegory?
A literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely. Characters in an allegory are frequently personifications of abstract ideas and are given names that refer to these ideas.
What is an archetype?
A cultural symbol that has become universally understood and recognized.
