Reading Plus.6B. Point of View(Lesson 2)

Point of View . Lesson 2

Multiple Select

I am a sick man. . . . I am a spiteful man. I believe my liver is diseased. I don’t consult a doctor for it, and never have, though I have a respect for medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, sufficiently so to respect medicine, anyway (I am welleducated enough not to be superstitious, but I am superstitious). . . . I used to be in the government service, but am no longer. I was a spiteful official. I was rude and took pleasure in being so....I was lying when I said just now that I was a spiteful official. I was lying from spite. (From Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

• What words or phrases give the idea that Dostoyevsky’s narrator may be unreliable?

• Explain what kind of biased point of view Dostoyevsky’s narrator might have, and why.

Multiple Choice

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore— While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door— Only this and nothing more.” (From The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe)

• 3. What words or phrases give the idea that Poe’s narrator may be unreliable?

• 4. Explain what kind of biased point of view Poe’s narrator might have, and why.

Multiple Select

5. Explain the biased point of view the narrator has toward Scrooge. Is the bias positive or negative? What words or phrases in the excerpt support this bias?

• 5. Explain the biased point of view the narrator has toward Scrooge. Is the bias positive or negative?

• What words or phrases in the excerpt support this bias?