Symbol, Allegory, and Point of View

Question 1

Second-person point of view

Answer 1

the reader is part of the story.

Question 2

First-person point of view

Answer 2

the narrator is a character in the story telling it from their perspective.

Question 3

Third-person point of view

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

Omniscient

Answer 4

knowing everything.

Question 5

Limited omniscient narrators

Answer 5

restricted to a single 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 mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, function, or process, e.g. the letter or letters standing for a chemical element or a character in musical notation.

Question 8

Allegory

Answer 8

a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.

Question 9

Archetypes

Answer 9

a very typical example of a certain person or thing.