author's point of view

Author's point of view (P O V)

To determine author's point of view in some selections.

Warming up: figure out the meaning of this idiom.

• When Ted showed up for chemistry class a half an hour late , his teacher really told him off.

Dialogue and Narration

• Dialogue = when characters speak.

• Narration = when the narrator speaks.

• “Quotation marks” separate narration from dialogue.

• “ Help” my cousin Jack said.

Multiple Choice

Q1. Dialogue is-----

• a conversation between characters

• when the narrator tells you what is happening in a story

Multiple Choice

Q2: When the NARRATORS speak.

• Dialogue

• Narration

Identifying Narrative Perspective

• It's about the narrator (who tells the story)

• We're not looking at dialogue.

• We don't care what characters say.

• Only the narrator's voice matters.

Perspectives and Signal Words

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1) First-Person

• The narrator is in the story

• Narrator will use words like – I, me, we, us, our, my

• Example: My name is Percy Jackson. I’m 12 years old. Until a few months ago, I was a boarding student at Yancy Academy, a private school for troubled kids in upstate New York. Am I a troubled kid? Yeah. You could say that. 

2) Second _Person

• The second person is almost never used in literature.

• Usually for instructions

• Example: First, gather your materials. Add 1 cup of sugar to flour.

3) Third-Person

• The narrator is telling a story about other people.Narrator usually isn’t involved.

• Narrator will use words like • He, she, him, her, they, them, their, (and characters’ names). 

• Example: She heard a loud crash in the middle of the night. She was so scared that she didn't know what she should do next.

It's time to buckle down!!

check your understanding

Multiple Choice

Q1. A type of narrative perspective in where the author uses pronouns like ''your" and "you."

• Third Person POV

• Second Person POV

• First Person POV

Multiple Choice

Q2. How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?

• the narrator is not in the story

• pronouns like I, my and we are used

Multiple Choice

Q3: “Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh. ”

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

Multiple Choice

Q4: dentify the point of view: "Cold chills scurried up and down my back and I shivered as the steep roller coaster clambered up."

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

Multiple Choice

Q3 What point of view:

John said he was going to the pumpkin patch with his family.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

Multiple Choice

Q3 What point of view:

John said he was going to the pumpkin patch with his family.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

Open Ended

convert this excerpt to first person point of view

The huge man dropped his blankets and flung himself down and drank from the surface of the green pool. The small man stepped behind him.