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 person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view

Question 3

Point of view

Answer 3

the writer’s way of deciding who is telling the story to whom

Question 4

Third-Person point of view

Answer 4

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 5

Limited omniscient narrators

Answer 5

restricted to a single character

Question 6

Omniscient

Answer 6

the all-knowing voice in a story

Question 7

omniscient narrator

Answer 7

all-seeing and all-knowing

Question 8

symbol

Answer 8

a thing that stands for or represents something else

Question 9

allegory

Answer 9

a “story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral or political one”

Question 10

archetypes

Answer 10

recognizable patterns in a story’s plot and structure that are repeatedly found in stories across time, cultures, and beliefs.