Point of View

The narrative perspective that an author uses to tell his story.

Dialogue and Narration

To identify the point of view, you must be able to differentiate between dialogue and narration.

Dialogue is when the characters speak Narration is when the narrator speaks Quotation marks separate the narration from

the dialogue

“Help!” my cousin Jack screamed.

When identifying the point of view we are not looking at the dialogue.

First person I, me, we, my, mine, us, ours

Second person You, yours

Third person He, she, it, they, them, her, character names

First person

The narrator is part of the story

Second person

The narrator is trying to make the reader a part of the story

Usually used for giving instructions

Third person

In limited third person the narrator is a part of the story, but only able to see through the eyes of one character

In omniscient third person the narrator is all seeing and all knowing. He is able to see through the eyes and into the minds of all the characters

Directions

In the following slides identify the point of view of the narrator. Use the options below: First Second Limited Third Omniscient Third

Make sure you write down your answers. The quiz will have each question in a randomly assigned order.

1

The whole family, in short, were properly overjoyed on the occasion. The younger girls formed hopes of coming out a year or two sooner than they might otherwise have done; and the boys were relieved from their apprehension of Charlotte's dying an old maid. Charlotte herself was tolerably composed. She had gained her point, and had time to consider of it. Her reflections were in general satisfactory. Mr. Collins to be sure was neither sensible nor agreeable; his society was irksome, and his attachment to her must be imaginary.

2

The final day of training ends with our private sessions. We each get fifteen minutes before the Gamemasters to amaze them with our skills, but I don’t know what any of us might have to show them. There’s a lot of kidding about it at lunch. What we might do. Sing, dance, strip, tell jokes. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Haymitch said to surprise them if we could, but I’m fresh out of ideas.

3

Harry sat his office holding his head. He wondered out loud about how he was going to find the courage to tell his daughters that he could not travel with them to see their grandmother in Florida. He knew they would be upset. It was all they had talked about. Now, Harry would have to break their hearts. Slowly, he rose from his chair and gathered his coat and briefcase. This would be the longest drive home.

4

Ned frowned. The man Syrio Forel had come with an excellent reputation, and his flamboyant Braavosi style was well suited to Arya’s slender blade, yet still… a few days ago, she had been wandering around with a swatch of black silk tied over her eyes. Syrio was teaching her to see with her ears and her nose and her skin, she told him. Before that, he had her doing spins and back flips. “Arya, are you certain you want to persist in this?”

5

Phases of her childhood lurked in her aspect still. As she walked along today, for all her bouncing handsome womanliness, you could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes, and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.

Yet few knew, and still fewer considered this. A small minority, mainly strangers, would look long at her in casually passing by, and grow momentarily fascinated by her freshness, and wonder if they would ever see her again: but to almost everybody she was a fine and picturesque country girl, and no more.

6

What a singular moment is the first one, when youhave hardly begun to recollect yourself, after startingfrom midnight slumber! By unclosing your eyes sosuddenly you seem to have surprised the personages ofyour dream in full convocation round your bed, and catchone broad glance at them before they can flit intoobscurity. Or, to vary the metaphor, you find yourself fora single instant wide awake in that realm of illusionswhither sleep has been the passport, and behold itsghostly inhabitants and wondrous scenery with aperception of their strangeness such as you never attainwhile the dream is undisturbed.fROm “ThE HAUNtED MKND”

7

1. First, you must take the three pints of corn syrup and mix with the flour.

2. Your mixture should sit in a dry area for one hour.

3. You then add the seasonings to a desired taste.

8

We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.

-from Moby Dick

Assignment

On the other side of the notes you have taken during this lesson you will write one paragraph for each of the perspectives we have discussed. First person Second person Limited third person Omniscient third person

5-6 sentences minimum in each paragraph.