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Point of View

Point of View. English Composition / 1302 Pages 127 …. Point of View. Refers to Speaker Narrator Persona Voice Created by authors to Tell stories Make observations Present arguments Express personal attitudes and judgments. Point of View and Opinions.

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Point of View

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  1. Point of View English Composition / 1302 Pages 127 …

  2. Point of View Refers to • Speaker • Narrator • Persona • Voice Created by authors to • Tell stories • Make observations • Present arguments • Express personal attitudes and judgments

  3. Point of View and Opinions Are not synonymous with each other. POV refers to • Work’s mode of narration • Comprising narrator • Language • Audience • Perceptions of events and characters

  4. Opinions and beliefs are • Thoughts and ideas • May or may not have anything to do with a narration • Affect how people view reality • What they say about their perceptions of the world around them Opinions stem out of POV and have an effect on POV

  5. Determining a Work’s Point of View First-Person Point of View • Narrator tells about events he or she has personally witnessed. • Uses the voice of “I” • May be named or unnamed. Speak as if they have acquired their knowledge • Firsthand experience • Have done • Said • Heard • Thought

  6. First-Person POV Firsthand Witness • What they have observed others doing and saying Secondhand Witness • Observed others doing and saying Inferential Information • Able to infer or deuce from the information they have discovered. Conjectural, Imaginative, Intuitive Information • Conjecture about haw a character or characters might think and act, given their knowledge of a situation.

  7. Reliable and Unreliable Determine the narrator’s • Position and ability • Prejudices or self-interest • Judgment of reader or listener • Reliable and authoritative Unreliable - they may have interests or limitations that lead them to • Mislead • Distort • Lie

  8. Second-Person POV The narrator is speaking to someone else who is addressed as “you” • Least common the of POVs • Most difficult for authors to manage Offers two major possibilities • A narrator (1st person speaker) tells a listener what he or she has done and said at a past time. • Actions might be a subject to retelling of events • Actions might also be subject dispute and interpretation.

  9. Third-Person Point of View The speaker emphasizes the actions and speeches of others • Described in 3rd Person (he, she, it, they) • Sometimes the speaker uses an “I,” which may seemingly be identical with the author The Authorial Voice • Within the voice of the narrator

  10. Three variants of the 3rd Person POV Third Person Objective • Dramatic or Objective POV is the basic method of narration. • Renders action and speech that all the points of view share. • Narrator is unidentified speaker who reports things in an analogous way.

  11. Dramatic POV continued … • The dramatic presentation is limited only to what is said and what happens. • The writer does not overtly draw conclusions or make interpretations • Dramatic POV is that readers can form their own interpretations. • The Lottery • A powerful example of Dramatic POV. • The POV or conclusions are stated.

  12. 3rd Person POVOmniscient POV • Omniscient POV • All-knowing. • In real life this doesn’t happen. • Authors use the POV • Freely • Judiciously • Explaining • Thoughts • Feelings • Plans • Additional dimensions • Example The Necklace

  13. 3rd PersonLimited Omniscient • Author concentrates on or limits the narration to the actions and thoughts of a major character • Examples • An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge • Miss Brill

  14. Mingling POVs • To imitate realty • Sustain interest • Create suspense • Put the burden of response entirely on the readers. • Example: An Occurrence at Owl Creek • The major character

  15. POV and Verb Tense • Refers to ways narrators and speakers perceive and report actions and speeches. • A Rendering of truth • Most narratives rely on the past tense • Introduction of dialogue, even in a past-tense narration, dramatically brings the story into the present. • Introduce present-tense commentary during narration.

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