symbol, allegory, and point of view

Question 1

1st person pov

Answer 1

told by narrator who is a character in the story. “I”

Question 2

2nd person pov

Answer 2

uses “you”. the reader casts as a character in the story

Question 3

3rd person pov

Answer 3

told by narrator, uses third person pov. tells thoughts and actions of characters in the story.

Question 4

omniscient

Answer 4

knowing everything. told using 3rd person pronouns, narrator is privy to the thoughts and actions of all characters in the story

Question 5

limited omniscient narrators

Answer 5

told by narrator who relates the action using third person. usually also privy to characters thoughts and actions of one character

Question 6

omniscient narrator

Answer 6

An ‘all-knowing’ kind of narrator very commonly found in works of fiction written as third-person narratives.

Question 7

symbols

Answer 7

a setting, an object, or an event in the story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something significant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature.

Question 8

allegory

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

archetypes

Answer 9

a cultural symbol that has become universally understood and recognized.