Symbol, Allegory, and POV

Question 1

Point of view (POV)

Answer 1

How the story is perceived or read

Question 2

Second person POV

Answer 2

When the audience is included into the story, the narrator is in the story talking to the audience. Addresses the audience as ‘you’

Question 3

First person POV

Answer 3

The story is told through the characters point of view. Uses I, we, my, mine

Question 4

Third person POV

Answer 4

The story is told through a narrator that is not part of the story. Uses they’re, they, he, she

Question 5

Omniscient

Answer 5

Knowing everything

Question 6

Limited omniscient narrators

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Omniscient narrator

Answer 7

Knows that all characters think and feel

Question 8

Symbols

Answer 8

objects, places, events, or characters that have meaning or significance

Question 9

Allegory

Answer 9

A literary work in which abstract ideas appear in concrete ways

Question 10

Archetypes

Answer 10

A very typical example of a certain person or thing.