Symbol, Allegory, and point of view Flashcards
What is second person point of view
a point of view (how a story is told) where the narrator tells the story to another character using the word ‘you.
What is First person point of view
the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view
What is third person point of view
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.
What is limited omniscient narrators
when an author sticks closely to one character but remains in third person. The narrator can switch between different characters, but will stay doggedly with one until the end of a chapter or section.
What is omniscient
narrator is the all-knowing voice in a story. The narrator has greater insight into the narrative events; context; and the characters’ motives, unspoken thoughts, and experiences, than any individual character does.
What is omniscient narrator
An ‘all-knowing’ kind of narrator very commonly found in works of fiction written as third-person narratives. The omniscient narrator has a full knowledge of the story’s events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of the various characters.
What is symbols
symbol is anything that hints at something else, usually something abstract, such as an idea or belief. A literary symbol is an object, a person, a situation, or an action that has a literal meaning in a story but suggests or represents other meanings.
What is allegory
A literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely. Characters in an alloy are frequently personifications of abstract ideas and are given names that refer to these ideas.
What is archetypes
A culture symbols that has become universally understood and recognize.
