Persona Questions and Answers
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Q. 1. What is the literary term for persona?
Ans. A persona is typically the person understood to be speaking or narrating a given work. The persona is often intended to be someone other than the author of that work, even if we never learn who the persona is. The persona, pluralized as personae or personas, is a chosen voice by which a work or story is told, always for a storytelling purpose. A persona can also be a character or mask someone (like a performer, for instance) puts on for the purpose of elevating their work and concealing their own identity. A persona is different from a person, which is a specific human individual. In literature, character personas are the characters in a literary work.
Q. 2.What are literary examples of persona?
Ans. Famous literary examples of persona abound. We think about William Blake writing in the voice of a young chimney sweeper, or Sylvia Plath writing in the voice of Lady Lazarus, or Gwendolyn Brooks writing in the voice of teenagers who have skipped school to play pool at a bar.
Q. 3. What are the different types of persona in a poem?
Ans. There are three different types of persona in a poem – first person (I), second person (you), or third person (he or she).
Q. 4. What is the importance of persona in literature?
Ans. Understanding a persona in a poem or novel is important because it allows readers to differentiate between the “narrator” and the writer. The narrator is a carefully crafted character who is just as much a part of the book as any other well-defined character is.
Q. 5. What is the persona of a poem called?
The speaker of a poem is the voice of the poem, similar to a narrator in fiction. The poet might not necessarily be the speaker of the poem. Sometimes the poet will write from a different perspective, or use the voice of a specific person, as in a persona poem.
Q. 6. Why is persona used in poetry?
Ans. Persona poetry has a rich history, at least as old as Classical China and Ancient Rome. Poets often used the form to elevate the voices of people who did not have a voice-for example, from the perspective of an exiled citizen, or a neglected lover.
Q. 7. What are the uses of persona?
Ans. Personas help us to define who the software is being created for and who not to focus on. Having a clear target is important. For projects with more than one user type, a list of personas will help us to prioritize which users are more important than others.
8. What is poetic persona?
Ans. Persona poetry is poetry that is written from the perspective of a ‘persona’ that a poet creates, who is the speaker of the poem. Dramatic monologues are a type of persona poem, because “as they must create a character, necessarily create a persona”.
Q. 9. What is the difference between persona and speaker?
Ans. Persona is the role adopted by the speaker in addressing the audience. Speakers assume a relationship with an audience that gives them their authority as speakers. Different roles carry different attitudes of speakers toward audiences, and imply different ways for audiences to consider the speaker.
Q.10. What is the difference between ‘persona’ and ‘person’?
Ans. ‘Person’ is a general term meaning an individual human. ‘Persona’ is a specific term referring to the characteristics one individual presents to another in order to influence the other’s perception of them. In literature, a persona is the narrative voice an author adopts, usually through a first-person narrator.
Q.11. What are the kinds of persona in literature?
Ans. There are two significant meanings for the word “persona” when used in literature: character and voice. Each of these can be identified as part of a critical analysis of a literary work. Active readers can gain a deeper understanding of a text by identifying the character and voice personae.
Q.12. How do you identify a persona in literature?
Ans. One key way to identify a literary persona is to think about the narrator or speaker and decide whether that character really matches with the biography of the writer. These are some key examples of persona in literature.
Q.13. What is a persona poem?
Ans. A persona poem is a poem in which the poet speaks through an assumed voice. The persona poem is also known as dramatic monologue, and this poetic form shares many characteristics with a theatrical monologue.
Q.14. What is the etymological meaning of ‘persona’?
Ans. The word ‘persona’ is derived from the word ‘mask’ in Latin. It originally means a mask or false face of clay or bark worn by actors. In literary and critical jargon, persona has come to denote the person or the ‘I’ of an ‘alter ego’ who speaks in a poem or novel or other form of literature.
Q.15. What is the role of ‘persona’ in Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Ans. Throughout the poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Eliot employs powerful images and figurative language to paint a mental image of this character’s perceptions and experiences. He moves through the world in a way that is entirely his own and entirely invented. While there are by necessity parts of Eliot in anything or anyone he wrote about, Prufrock is his own person.
Short Essay Type Questions with Answers [MARKS- 5]
Q. 1. Define persona with examples.
The term persona has been derived from the Latin word ‘persona’ that means the mask of an actor. The term is therefore etymologically linked to the ‘dramatis personae’ for the list of characters who play role in a drama. The word persona initially meant a theatrical mask; but nowadays the word in English means a particular individual. In literature, persona is applied to the first-person speaker who tells the story in a narrative poem or novel, or whose voice we hear in a lyric poem. Examples of persona vary in different genres of literature. The visionary firstperson narrator in John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, Gulliver who tells us about his misadventures in Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, the narrator of Fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’, are the good examples of persona. The speaker who talks first to himself, then to his sister, in Wordsworth’s Tinton Abbey, the Duke who tells the emissary about his former wife in Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’ and the fantastic biographer who narrates Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’ are examples of persona.
Q. 2. What is the significance of persona in literature?
The potential of writing through a persona opens up many possibilities for an author. All writers to some extent create and interpret the experiences of characters who are not themselves. Using a persona, however, takes this one step further, much as Method acting requires an actor to completely get inside the head of a character to understand why he or she would act a certain way. An author may write through the persona of a different character to understand parallels between their two world views, work through certain poetic problems, or simply free himself or herself from the limitations of his or her own life experiences. Using a persona requires a high level of compassion and empathy on the part of the author to legitimately explore a situation through a lens not his or her own.
Q. 3. What isDramatis Personae? Give examples.
Originally mask or false face of clay or bark worn by actors. From it derives the term ‘dramatis personae’ and, later, the word person. In literary and critical jargon persona has come to denote the ‘person’ who speaks in a poem or novel or other form of literature. For instance, the narrator of Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, the speaker in Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale, the different speakers in Browning’s dramatic monologues, the Gulliver of Gulliver’s Travels’, Marlow in Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ and other stories by him.
Dramatis personae refers to the key characters that are featured in a list at the start of a play. This dramatic device often shows the audience the cast of characters they should expect to see in a play, followed by the actors/actresses that play the parts.
Q. 4. Explain the term persona.How did Eliot use persona in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
Persona originally means mask or false face of clay or bark worn by actors. Published in 1915 in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockis Eliot’s most famous poem and one of the best examples in poetry of a persona. Eliot crafts the character Prufrock in this poem and in others. He is a character who is overcome with feelings of isolation, inadequacy, and desperation while living in a ragged and incomprehensible cityscape. Let us look at these lines: My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin, My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin
(They will say: “But how his arms and legs are thin!”) Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
Q. 5. Write a note on character and characterization.
In a work of fiction, a character is a person depicted in a narrative or drama. According to M. H. Abrams, characters are the persons who are interpreted by the reader as possessing particular moral, intellectual, and emotional qualities by inferences from what the persons say and do. Characters may be of various types such as: major or minor; and flat or round. The main character in a story is generally known as the protagonist while the one who opposes him or her is the antagonist. A character is revealed by different techniques of characterization: dialogue, action, motivation, showing and telling.
In showing (also called ‘the dramatic method’) the author simply presents the characters talking and acting; and reveal the motives and dispositions of the characters through what they say and do. The author may show not only external speech and actions but also a character’s inner thoughts, feelings, and responsiveness to events. In telling, the author intervenes authoritatively in the motives, dispositional qualities of the characters. Jane Austen shows her characters.
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