Point of View

Point of view is...

• When and where the story takes place

• the perspective from which the story is told or who is telling the story

• The most exciting part of the story; When the character comes face to face with the conflict

• when a story introduces the setting and characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

"I, we, our, my, us, etc."

• Third Person Limited

• Second Person

• First Person

• Third Person Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

What point of view: "You really should get going or you will miss the bus" I told my dad.

• Second Person

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

• First Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

Third person _________ is when the narrator only know the thoughts or feelings for one character.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

"All knowing, All seeing"

• Limited

• Omniscient

• Objective

• Perplexed

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.9

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

What point of view: He sat there at his computer, staring at the monitor a strong desire to write in the third person, but how does one do so, he pondered. The question rang through his mind, over and over again. Ideas and notions crept up, but he had no way of knowing if what or any were the correct answer.

• Second Person

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Objective

• First Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

_____________ person uses the pronouns "you" and "your"

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

What point of view: The Dursleys hadn’t even remembered that today happened to be Harry’s twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn’t been high; they’d never given him a real present, let alone a cake – but to ignore it completely…

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998), p. 9.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Objective

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

Narrators can only be outside the story.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

Third Person uses the pronouns:

• I, we, me, us, ours

• you, yours

• He, she, they, theirs, his, hers

• none of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.1.6