Point Of View 1
What is first person?
Stories including the words.. I, my, mine, me, myself.
What is second person?
Stories including the words.. you, your, yours, yourself.
What is third person?
Stories with the words.. he, his, she, her, himself, herself, they, them, there, it.
What point of view in a story is talking about you?
Second Person
Some third person narrators know everything about the characters (all-knowing)
Third Person Omniscient
True or False: Stories do not use dialogue when they are told in Third-Person.
False
What is "perspective"?
How the narrator feels based on his or her own personal experiences and background.
How does an author support their own point of view?
With reasons.
"He was swimming back and forth until he was exhausted." Which point of view describes this sentence?
Third Person
A character who plays a relatively small part in the story
Minor Character
What pronoun is referring to a boy?
His, him, himself.
What pronoun is referring to a girl?
She, her, herself.
What pronoun is referring to a group of people in third person?
Them.
What pronoun is referring to an object or creature?
It.
The person telling the story
Narrator
What is Point Of View?
The perspective from which the story is told.
After school yesterday, Mr. Wall talked to Jimmy about how he's academically ineligible.
Third Person
"Vedanth likes to play with me."
What point of view is this sentence?
First Person
How does point of view work?
Point of view refers to who is telling or narrating a story. A story can be told from the first person, second person or third person point of view.
Third-person narrator that only focuses on what a single character experiences
Third Person Limited
This point of view is only used for manuals or instructions.
Second Person
What pronoun refers to a group of people including yourself?
Us.
Srikar was playing video games and enjoying his time.
Who's perspective is this?
Srikar's Perspective
What type of person (third person, second person, or first person) is in a story where someone talks about themselves to the reader?
First Person
Often times the main person in the story
Major Character