Persona | Literary Term | English Literature | Major English | Plus Two Level
In
literature, the persona is the narrator, or the storyteller, of a literary work
created by the author. Persona can refer to the characters in
any dramatic or literary work. But it has another special meaning in
literary studies, where it refers to the voice of a particular kind
of character, who is also
the narrator within a literary work written from the first-person
point of view. The
persona is almost invariably distinct from the author; it is the voice chosen
by the author for a particular artistic purpose. The persona may be a
character in the work or merely an unnamed narrator; but, insofar as the manner
and style of expression in the work exhibit taste, prejudice, emotion, or
other characteristics of a human personality, the work may be said to be in the
voice of a persona. Every
work of literature, dramatic, prosaic, or poetic has characters, or at least
one—the narrator—at minimum.
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