Narrative Point of View

What is narrative point of view?

• The perspective of one of the minor characters in a work of fiction.

• The perspective of the protagonist in the story as events happen to him or her.

• The perspective from which the events in the story are observed and recounted.

• The perspective of the author and what he or she intends to tell the reader.

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The narrator knows all of the events and has control of the story

• Interior monologue

• Memoir or observer narration

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The narrator tells the story using the pronouns "I" and "We"

• Third person limited

• First person point of view

• Objective narration

• Framed narrative

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where he and his scar were famous … but now the school year was over, and he was back with the Dursleys for the summer, back to being treated like a dog that had rolled in something smelly.

This passage is told in:

• Second person

• Third person omniscient

• Third person Limited

• First Person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Third person limited differs from third person omniscient:

• because the point of view is fixed or limited to a particular perspective

• because the reader can infer what other people feel and think only from what the viewpoint character observes

• A and B

• A only

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Objective third person point of view is a story told mostly in

• the present

• the past

• the future

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A first person narrator who tries to persuade or get the reader to be on his side of the story or share his point of view.

• Objective Narration

• Subjective Narration

• Omniscient Narration

• Detached Narration

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

A detached autobiography narration is characterized by:

• A narrator telling the events as they happen in the moment.

• Someone else telling the life story of a character.

• A main character that is often reflecting on a past self.

• The author telling his own life story.

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.10

CCSS.RI.6.10

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

The narrator is an observer rather than the main participant in:

• Subjective Narration

• Interior Monologue

• Dramatic Narration

• Memoir or Observer Narration

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

"How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself." --Virginia Woolf, The Waves

This is an example of:

• First person narration

• Interior monologue

• Subjective Thoughts

• Thinking Aloud

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3