Subjective vs Objective Point of View

placing too much emphasis on personal moods, attitudes, opinions, and biases

• subjective

• objective

Corn is the best vegetable and everyone should eat it.

• Subjective

• Objective

Pizza is the most delicious food."

• Subjective

• Objective

not influenced by personal feelings, interpretations, or prejudice; based on facts; unbiased

• subjective

• objective

Subjective or Objective?

Zaiden: We should use corn as ethanol to help the environment.

Amaya: We should actually use corn as a food source as we use too much for ethanol.

• Subjective

• Objective

A school textbook is most likely....

• Subjective

• Objective

When a point of view is colored by the narrator's personal opinion.

• Subjective Point of View

• Objective Point of View

"I glanced around the croweded train car. You'd think every dang person from Lampasas to Houston wanted to go to Galveston this hot August day." is an example of...

• Subjective Point of View

• Objective Point of View

"The sun has not yet risen over the rocky hills outside the city of Peshwar, in Pakistan. Loudspeakers from the top of a mosque (mahsk), or Muslim house of worship, call out to people..." is an example of...

• Subjective Point of View

• Objective Point of View

Engines buzzed in a swarm above. Der Schwarze Tod, 'the Black Death,' they called them. I hid beneath the trees. The planes weren't visable, but I felt them. Close. This is an example of...

• Subjective Point of View

• Objective Point of View