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Point of View
Vocabulary words for point of view
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Literature
Undergraduate 1
01/21/2012

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persona
Definition
An external representation of oneself which might or might not accurately reflect one's inner self, or an external representation of oneself that might be largely accurate, but involves exaggerating certain characteristics and minimizing others
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1st person
Definition
the narrator speaks as "I" and the narrator is a character in the story who may or may not influence events within it
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3rd person
Definition
the narrator seems to be someone standing outside the story who refers to all the characters by name or as he, she, they, and so on
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major character
Definition
also known as protagonist: whom the author focuses most of the narrative attention
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minor character
Definition
a simplified character who does not change or alter his or her personality over the course of a narrative, or one without extensive personality and characterization
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irony
Definition
saying one thing and meaning another
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dramatic irony
Definition
involves a situation in a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know
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situational irony
Definition
is a trope in which accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as the poetic justice of a pickpocket getting his own pocket picked
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verbal irony
Definition
is a trope in which a speaker makes a statement in which its actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the words ostensibly express
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objective narrator
Definition
narrator never discloses anything about what the characters think or feel, remaining a detached observer.
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narrator
Definition
The "voice" that speaks or tells a story
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omniscent
Definition
knowing or seeming to know everything
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limited omniscent
Definition
Limited omniscient, or third person limited, point of view, is a way of telling a story in which the narrator is not a character in the story and does not explain the thoughts and feelings of all the characters

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unreliable narrator
Definition
a storyteller who "misses the point" of the events or things he describes in a story, who plainly misinterprets the motives or actions of characters, or who fails to see the connections between events in the story
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