Symbols and Allegory + Point of View Flashcards
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Symbols
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Objects, places, events, or characters that have meaning and significance beyond their physical form.
2
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Allegory
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An entire literary work in which abstract ideas appear in concrete ways.
3
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Archetypes
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Common symbols frequently functioning.
4
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Second-person point of view
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Can be effective, and Jemisin employs it here to heighten the intensity and urgency of the situation in which readers find themselves.
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First-person point of view
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Readers have the most direct experience of what happens in the story according to the narrator’s interpretation of it.
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Third-person point of view
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Use pronouns such as she, he, it, and they.
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Omniscient
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All Knowing
8
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Limited Omniscient Narrators
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Only know and relate what one major or minor character thinks and feels.
