UNIT 2

3rd Person Omniscient

• Narrator is all knowing

• To give information

• The story is just told. The reader doesn’t know what the characters are thinking

• The narrator only knows the thoughts of one character

"Spring Break is a fun time of year. We gather with our family and eat delicious food. It is usually warm and my cousins and I play tag and swim! I look forward to it every year!"

The author's point of view in this passage is ..

• 3rd Person objective

• 2nd Person

• 1st Person

• 3rd Person

Tone

• A writers attitude towards his or her subject matter revealed through language used

• Second person

• The story is told from a character in the story

• First Person

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• To Explain

• To Persuade

• To give information

• How the reader feels about the text while reading

Entertain

• Directions, Instructions, or step by step process

• Provide amusement or enjoyment

• How the reader feels about the text while reading

• Cause someone to do something

3rd Person

• The narrator is not in the story

• Second person

• Puts the reader in the story

• The story is told from a character in the story

Describe

• Directions, instructions, or step by step process

• To say or write down how something or someone looks; to use adjectives

• To convey a message as clearly and directly as possible

• Cause someone to do something through reasoning or argument

Persuade

• Directions, instructions, or step by step process

• Provide someone with amusement or enjoyment

• Cause someone to do something through reasoning

Explain

• Directions, instructions, or step by step process

• To convey a message as clear as possible

• Cause someone to do something through reasoning

• provide someone with amusement or enjoyment

Mood

• How the reader feels about the text while reading it

• Cause someone to to do something through reasoning or argument

• Directions, instructions

• How the author feels about what they have written