Symbol, Allegory, and Point of View Flashcards
Symbols
the writer employs an image with a deeper, non-literal meaning, for the purpose of conveying complex ideas. In literature, symbolism is the use of a concrete image to represent an abstract idea. For example, the heart is often employed as a symbol of love.
Allegory
a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
Archetypes
Generally, the original model from which something is developed or made; in literary criticism, those images, figures, character types, settings, and story patterns that, according to the Swiss analytical psychologist, Carl Gustav Jung, are universally shared by people across cultures.
Point of View
a particular attitude or way of considering a matter.
2nd Person POV
Second person point of view uses the pronoun “you” to address the reader. This narrative voice implies that the reader is either the protagonist or a character in the story and the events are happening to them.
1st Person POV
the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view. The narration usually utilizes the pronoun I (or we, if the narrator is speaking as part of a group).
3rd Person POV
the narrator exists outside the events of the story, and relates the actions of the characters by referring to their names or by the third-person pronouns he, she, or they.
Omniscient
having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things
Limited Omniscient Narrators
is when an author sticks closely to one character but remains in third person. The narrator can switch between different characters, but will stay doggedly with one until the end of a chapter or section.
Omniscient Narrators
is all-seeing and all-knowing. While the narration outside of any one character, the narrator may occasionally access the consciousness of a few or many different characters.
