Symbol, Allegory, and Point of View

Question 1

Symbols

Answer 1

Objects, places, events, or characters that have meaning and significance beyond their physical form

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

An entire literary work in which abstract ideas appear as a symbol in concrete and recognize them more easily

Question 3

Archetypes

Answer 3

A cultural symbol that has become universally understood and recognized

Question 4

Second-person Point of View

Answer 4

Some stories told uses 2nd POV pronouns, such as “you”. This casts the reader as a character in the story

Question 5

First-person Point of View

Answer 5

Told by the narrator who is a character in the story and who refers to them-self as “I”

Question 6

Third-person Point of View

Answer 6

Uses pronouns such as “he, she, they, them, he, it”. Have a perspective that keeps them at a distance and prevents them from playing a role in the story’s plot

Question 7

Omniscient

Answer 7

All-knowing

Question 8

Limited Omniscient Narrators

Answer 8

Only know and relate what one major minor character thinks and feels

Question 9

Omniscient Narrator

Answer 9

Shares what all characters think and feel instead of limiting the narrator’s perspective to just one character