Symbol, Allegory, & POV

Question 1

Symbols

Answer 1

A setting, an object, or an even in a story that carries more than literal meaning and therefore represents something significant to understanding the meaning of a work of literature

Question 2

Allegory

Answer 2

A literary work that portrays abstract ideas concretely. Characters in a allegory are frequently personifications of abstract ideas and are given names that refer to these ideas

Question 3

Archetypes

Answer 3

A cultural symbol that has become universally understood and recognized

Question 4

Second-person POV

Answer 4

Makes the reader of the story a character within the story

Question 5

First-person POV

Answer 5

The narrator is a character in the story; refers to him or herself as “I”

Question 6

Third-person POV

Answer 6

Uses “she, he, it, and they;” keeps the viewer or reader at a distance stopping them from playing a role in the story

Question 7

Omniscient

Answer 7

All-Knowing; The narrator knows what every character thinks and feels

Question 8

Limited Omniscient narrators

Answer 8

Only knows and relate what 1 major or minor character thinks or feels

Question 9

Omniscient narrator

Answer 9

Shares what all characters think and feel instead of limiting the narrator perspective to 1 character