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Point of View
Purpose
Mrs. I
Potpourri
100
The author's reason for writing
What is author's purpose?
100
The narrator is a character in the story?
What is first person point of view?
100
The acronoym to remember purpose
What is PIE?
100
Mrs. Iserman's classroom number
What is 111?
100
The difference between limited and omniscient point of view?
What is limited only knows the thoughts and feeling of one character while omniscisent knows the thoughts and feelings of all?
200
The perspective from which a story is told
What is point of view?
200
The dogs were still running at a lope, though we had come over seven miles, and I was full of them; my life was full of them. We were, as it happens sometimes, dancing with winter. I could not help smiling, just smiling idiotically at the grandness of it. Part of the chant of an ancient Navajo prayer rolled through my mind: Beauty above me. Beauty above me. Beauty below me. Beauty before me… That is how I felt then and frequently still feel when I am running with dogs.
What is first person?
200
A map of the school showing all of the emergency exits
What is inform?
200
The activity that Mrs. Iserman advises
What is Student Council or SMARTS?
200
In this type of writing, point of view is first person, third person, etc.
What is fiction?
300
The author wants to give the reader information
What is writing to inform?
300
Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where he and his scar were famous … but now the school year was over, and he was back with the Dursleys for the summer, back to being treated like a dog that had rolled in something smelly. The Dursleys hadn't even remembered that today happened to be Harry's twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn't been high
What is third person limited?
300
A script for a TV show about a detective who can read the minds of farm animals
What is entertain?
300
The names of Mrs. Iserman's daughters
What are Emmy and Elle?
300
The most biased point of view
What is first person?
400
The narrator isn't a character in the story
What is third person point of view?
400
The other ship hung in the sky like a pendant, silver in the ether light cast by the nebula. Waverly and Kieran, lying together on their mattress of hay bales, took turns peering at it through a spyglass. They knew it was a companion vessel to theirs, but out here, in the vastness of space, it could have been as tiny as a one-man or as immense as a star.
What is third person omniscient?
400
A script for a TV show about a detective who can read the minds of farm animals
What is persuade?
400
The name of Mrs. Iserman's dog.
What is Cajun?
400
In this type of writing, point of view is the author's tone
What is non-fiction?
500
An unfair or illogical judgement, resulting in the inability to treat people or evaluate ideas fairly
What is bias?
500
Your tomato plants may be resilient, but there are a couple things that you can do to help them grow rich and lush. First, you should water the tomato plant in the morning. Tomatoes grow best when they can aspirate, or drink water, all day in the sun. If you water them at night, they will have a harder time releasing excess water. Second, you should give them the correct amount of water. Follow the chart on page 67 to determine how much water you should give your tomato plants.
What is serious?
500
The similarity between informative and persuasive writing that might cause you to confuse these two purposes
What is both usually contain facts?
500
Mrs. Iserman's favorite thing to do besides teaching all of you and being with her kids.
What is sleep?
500
The author's attitude toward the subject that he or she is writing about
What is author's tone?