What's Your Point of View?

What's Your Point of View?

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What Is The Author's View Point?

The point of view refers to who is telling the story. A story can be told in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person point of view. Writers use POV to express the personal emotions of either themselves or the characters.

Narrator

Who is telling the story. Different narrators have different knowledge about the story and characters.

Character's Point of View

How the character thinks and/or feels about things. All characters don't feel or think the same way.

Each characters point of view is created based on their attitude, experience, values, and/or beliefs.

Point of View Perspective

How the narrator and/or character(s) sees things during the story.

Multiple Choice

The voice in which the story is told.

• Point of View
• Dialogue
• Narration

Multiple Choice

When the NARRATORS speak.

• Dialogue
• Narration

Multiple Choice

These separate narration from dialogue.

• Quotation Marks
• Captal Letters
• Periods
• Question Marks

Multiple Choice

What is the essential question when trying to determine the POV of a text?

• Who is telling the story?

• Whose thoughts do we know?

• Which pronouns are being used?

• Is the main character the narrator?

Multiple Choice

The narrator is the______.

• person telling the text
• main character in the story
• enemy of the main character in the text
• person listening to the text

Multiple Choice

Which sentence is written is second person point of view?

• Erin did not want to go to the grocery store.
• You did not want to go to the grocery store.
• Mariah did not want to go to the grocery store.
• I did not want to go to the grocery store.