Point of View

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Point of View
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Do you know?

• What is a narrator?
• The person telling a story.
• What is a view?
• The way the person tells the story

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Point of View

• Point of view refers to who narrates a story and
  how much that narrator knows.
• Every story has a narrator who presents the
  action from a particular, identifiable point of
  view. 
• The narrator may be a character in the story who
  speaks in the first person. 
• More often, the narrator views the action from a
  vantage point outside the story, speaking in the
  third person. 
• When a narrator seems to know everything about
  all the characters, he may be called omniscient. 

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First Person

• First-person point of view, the writer chooses to
  have a character within the story to narrate it.
• The author uses the first-person pronouns I and
  me. 
• This method of storytelling lets the reader see
  and know only what that character, the narrator,
  sees and knows.

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Second Person

• You use the second-person point of view to
  address the reader.
• The second person uses the pronouns you,
  your, and yours.
• We use these three pronouns when addressing one,
  or more than one, person.
• Second person is often appropriate for e-mail
  messages, presentations, and business and
  technical writing.

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Third Person

• Third-person narrators can be classified as
  omniscient or limited, depending on how much they
  know. 
• In the omniscient point of view, the narrator is
  all-knowing and can describe every character's
  thoughts. 
• By contrast, a narrator in a third-person limited
  point of view possesses limited knowledge and is
  often confined to one or two characters.

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Notes

• Point of view refers to who narrates a story and
  how much that narrator knows.
• First person point of view has a narrator who is
  in the story, and he/she is telling the story.
  This narrator can only tell the reader what
  he/she sees.
• Third person omniscient is a narrator who is not
  in the story. This narrator knows all, sees all.
  The narrator knows what the characters are
  thinking.

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More Notes

• You use the second-person point of view to
  address the reader.
• The second person uses the pronouns you,
  your, and yours.

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Dialogue

• Dialogue is simply the conversation being held
  between characters in our short stories and
  books.
• In short, talking.

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Dialogue Rules

• Use quotation marks to indicate words which are
  spoken by characters.
• Always start a new paragraph when changing
  speakers. You cannot have two people speaking in
  the same paragraph.
• Make sure the reader knows who is speaking.
• Use correct punctuation, capitalization and
  spacing.

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Answer this

• What is first person point of view?
• What is third person point of view?
• Name this
• I wish I could go out with my friends tonight.
  My mom and I are fighting and I know she is going
  to tell me I cannot go.
• Jimmy told Ella that she could not go to the
  store with him. Jimmy was being nice because he
  knows that Ella would think that he liked her.
  Ella knows that Jimmy doesnt like her.
• Class, you need to be in your seats when the
  principal arrives. Tom and Jerry, Im speaking to
  you as well. By the way, are these comic books
  yours?