Point of View
A point of view in which the narrator is a character in the story.
What is first person point of view?
The universal message or lesson of a story
What is theme?
Example - The fire danced through the house until the whole structure was in flames.
What is personification?
A guess about the passage that is supported with textual evidence
What is an inference?
The reason why a character says or does what he/she says or does.
What is the character's motivation?
This point of view can be either limited or omniscient.
What is third person point of view?
The sequence of events in a story
What is plot?
Example - The children were flowers grown in concrete gardens.
What is a metaphor?
When you develop a theory or explanation about a part of the text based on several pieces of textual evidence
What is draw a conclusion or conclude?
When a character's struggles are shown through feelings and thoughts.
What is internal conflict?
This point of view shows the thoughts and feelings of all characters in a story.
What third person omniscient point of view?
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
Example - Watching the show was like watching grass grow.
What is a simile?
To reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea.
What is summarize?
How a character reacts. This can be through words or actions.
What is a character's response?
If you the reader knows the thoughts, feelings, actions, and reactions of all characters in a story, the author has used this point of view.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
A struggle between two opposing forces
What is conflict?
Example - If I don't get a new iPad, I will die!
What is hyperbole?
To restate the meaning of something in different words.
What is paraphrase?
The main character in a literary work.
What is the protagonist?
This is the best point of view to use if an author wants the reader to connect closely with the main character's experience.
What is first person point of view?
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
What is mood?
Example from Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings - "Mrs. Flowers’ voice slid in and curved down through and over the words. She was nearly singing."
What is imagery or sensory language?
To study closely in order to understand how the different parts of the whole are related.
What is analyze?
What is the antagonist?