Author's Point of View or Purpose

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What is the author's purpose?

• to entertain you with a story about artists

• to teach you how all artists become famous

• to persuade you to attend an art program

• to explain how to paint a sunset

Point of view is...

• What the story is about

• The author's favorite book

• Who is telling the story

• The main idea 

What is the advantage to first person point of view?

• You learn the thoughts and feeling about muliple characters.

• You learn about the narrator deeply because we get an insight into their perspective.

• There isn't an advantage. We don't get any new information.

What is the author promoting?

• Making long-term investments.

• Writing a central core of beliefs.

• Living with different people.

• Starting a national service program.

Author's Purpose is...

• the purpose for existence

• his/her name

• the reason WHY the author wrote the story.

• his/her OPINION about the topic

Author's purpose can be divided into 3 categories...

• to entertain

• to eat ice cream

• to inform

• to persuade

A subjective point of view...

• is red.

• includes someone's personal feelings on a topic.

• involves a subject.

• includes only facts about a topic.

An author's point of view is __________________

• 1st person, 2nd person, or 3rd person

• what an author thinks, feels, or believes

• what an author can see

• an author's opinion

An author's purpose is ___________________.

• what the author is told to write about

• the reason an author wrote the text

• to inform, persuade, or explain/entertain.

• to be important

Which of the following are examples of an author's point of view in nonfiction text?

• entice, inform, persuade

• entertain, persuade, instruct

• persuade, informatory, explanatory

• entertain, informatory, persuade