Symbol, Allegory, and Point of View

Question 1

What is setting?

Answer 1

When and where a story takes place.

Question 2

Second-person point of view

Answer 2

When the reader is put in the story situation and words you and your are used by the narrator to speak to the reader.

Question 3

First-person point of view

Answer 3

When the main character is also the narrator with the story going through their experience.

Question 4

Third-person POV

Answer 4

When a narrator tells the story separate from any characters or the reader using she, he, it, and they.

Question 5

Omniscient

Answer 5

A third-person narrator can be all-knowing.

Question 6

Limited Omniscient

Answer 6

A limited omniscient narrator only knows the views of one or few characters.

Question 7

Omniscient Narrator

Answer 7

Knows what all characters feel, think, and experience.

Question 8

Allegory

Answer 8

When abstract ideas appear in concrete ways.

Question 9

Archetypes

Answer 9

A cultural symbol that has become universally understood and recognized.

Question 10

Theme

Answer 10

Issues and questions relating to life we see in a story.