the term of persona has been derived from the latin word persona which means ''the mask the mask of an actor and is ther fore etoymolgically linked to the dramites personae which refore to the list of charecter and cast in aplay or drama it is also known as theritrical mask it can be defined ina literary work as a voce or an assuumed role of a charecter which represnts the though of a writer or a specific person the writer or specific person of a writer person the writer wants to persent as this mouthpiece
most of the time the dramaties personae are identified with the writer though sometimes a persona can be a character or an unknown narrotor
EXAMPLE OF PERSONA IN LITERATURE
he was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the gulf stream and he had gone eighty four days now without taking a fish in the first forty days a boy had been with him but after forty days without a fish the boy had told him that the old man was now definitely and finally salo which is the worist from of unlucky
