Symbol, Allegory, and Point of View

Question 1

Second-Person Point of View

Answer 1

Casts as the reader as a character in the story

Question 2

First-Person Point of View

Answer 2

Told by a narrator who is apart of the story and refers to their pronouns as “I” or “Me.”

Question 3

Third-Person Point of View

Answer 3

The narrator exists outside of the events of a story and relates the characters with pronouns of “He, Him, his” or “Her, She.”

Question 4

Omniscient

Answer 4

God-like or all-knowing.

Question 5

Limited Omniscient Narrators

Answer 5

The author sticks closely to one character but remains in third person.

Question 6

Symbol

Answer 6

A setting, an object, or an event in a story that carries more than literal meaning. Therefore, it represents something significant to understand the work of literature.

Question 7

Allegory

Answer 7

A literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely. Characters in a allegory are frequent personifications of abstract ideas.

Question 8

Archetypes

Answer 8

A cultural symbol that has become universally understood and recognized.