Omniscient vs Limited Narration Styles

Omniscient vs Limited

and some other point of view review

Points of View

• First person: I/we/us

• Second person: You

• Third person: He/she/they/them/it

Multiple Choice

Which style of narration is most likely to give you a personal perspective?

• First person

• Second Person

• Third person

Omniscient vs limited

Omniscient: you get to see multiple perspectives; you get into the head of more than one character.

Limited: you only get one perspective; you only get into the head of one character

Multiple Choice

Which narrator did Mr. Lambert compare to a newspaper writer?

• Omniscient

• Limited

• First person

• All knowing

Multiple Choice

Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing in town at that season? If she had appeared to be catching a train, he might have inferred that he had come on her in the act of transition between one and another of the country-houses which disputed her presence after the close of the Newport season; but her desultory air perplexed him.

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

Multiple Choice

The house was big, old and Levin, though he lived alone, heated and occupied all of it. He knew that it was even wrong and contrary to his new plans, but this house was a whole world for Levin. It was the world in which his father and mother had lived and died. They had lived a life which for Levin seemed the ideal of all perfection and which he dreamed of renewing with his wife, with his family.

• Third person lmiited

• Third person omniscient

Review

Limited: Description

Omniscient: All-knowing

Multiple Choice

What does omniscient mean?

• All-powerful

• Only a little bit

• All-knowing

• God

Important Point #1

• Narration can change

Multiple Choice

What is the narration style in the second paragraph of A Christmas Carol?

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient

• First person

Important Point #2

There are different levels of limited and omniscient

Multiple Choice

What story did Mr. Lambert reference on the last slide as an example of third-person limited narration?

• A Christmas Carol

• Loser

• Harry Potter

• For Whom the Bell Tolls

Multiple Choice

Casey signed into Minecraft at 7pm to wait for Gabrielle and Mostafa. They had all agreed to meet for an hour long session of video games. Casey waited 10 minutes but started to get irritated that neither Gabrielle or Mostafa were signing on. After five more minutes, Casey turned off the game and went outside to enjoy the clear air.

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

Multiple Choice

I bit my lip yesterday, and because it was kind of swollen after biting it the first time, I bit it two more times. Now I have a cut in my mouth and it's a real bummer. Hot tea and coffee are difficult to drink.

• Third-person limited

• Third-person omniscient

• First person

• Second person

Multiple Choice

Timmy and Richard both love hip-hop, so when they found out that Mr. Lambert is good friends with DJ Khaled. Timmy thought it was cool, but Richard thought Mr. Lambert is trying to hard to include references that students will understand.

• Third-person limited

• Second person

• First person

• Third-person omniscient

Multiple Choice

You need to understand something. What you think the game was incredibly important. The rest of the group didn't really care about the result. But they knew that it was important to you.

• First person

• Third-person limited

• Second person

• Third-person omniscient

Author vs. Speaker vs. Narrator

• Author = the person who wrote the story

• Narrator = the person telling the story

• Speaker = the character talking in the story

Multiple Choice

In A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens is the ...

• Speaker

• Author

• Narrator

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

The person telling the story is the ...

• Author

• Speaker

• Narrator

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character of A Christmas Carol, is an example of a ...

• Speaker

• Author

• Narrator

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is grammatically correct?

• Mr. lambert forgot to bring his lunch to school today.

• Mr. Lambert forgot to bring his lunch to school today.

• Mr. Lambert forgot to bring his lunch to school today

• Mr. lambert forgot to bring his Lunch to school today.

Multiple Choice

What does limited mean?

• All- knowing

• Only knows a little bit

Multiple Choice

What is a good way to remember second person?

• It's the second most used point of view.

• Two rhymes with you

Multiple Choice

Which types of words should you NOT capitalize? (select all that apply)

• Names of people, places, and things

• The first letter of a sentence.

• The word I

• Seasons

• The first word of a quote