8th ELA Milestones Review pt. 2

The words and phrases used by the narrator in a text

• point of view

• narrative voice

• character

I, me, mine, we, us, ours (narrative voice)

• First person point of view

• Second person point of view

• Third person point of view

you, your (command or instructions in narrative voice)

• First person point of view

• Second person point of view

• Third person point of view

he, she, her, they, them (& character names in narrative voice)

• first person point of view

• second person point of view

• third person point of view

Narrator does not reveal any character’s thoughts or feelings. Only the character’s dialogue and actions are narrated.

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Narrator is limited to 1 character (tells us the thoughts/feelings of one character)

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

The narrator is all knowing—tells the thoughts/feelings of more than one character

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

The actual everyday meanings of words

• literal language

• figurative language

Figures of speech, images that appeal to the reader’s sense, symbols, and analogies

• literal language

• figurative language

Compares 2 unlike things by stating that one thing is another thing

Example: She is a sleeping log.

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Hyperbole

• Personification