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Exploring Perspectives in Literature

Understand the role of perspective and point of view in literature, from first-person to omniscient narration, and how it shapes storytelling and character insights. Explore examples to grasp different viewpoints in storytelling.

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Exploring Perspectives in Literature

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  1. Perspective… …and Point of View

  2. What is Perspective? • www.dictionary.com defines perspective as “a mental view or outlook”

  3. How does perspective connect to literature? Point of View!

  4. What is point of view? • The perspective from which the story is told. • 4 points of view in literature

  5. 1st person(I, we) • Relates events as they are perceived by a single character • One main character “tells” the story and offers opinions about the action and other characters. • These opinions may differ from the author’s!

  6. 2nd person(you) • Author tells the story as if it is happening to the reader

  7. 3rd Person Omniscient(he, she, they) • The narrator is “all-knowing” and entirely outside of the story’s events • Author can tell us anything that occurs anywhere, any time within the story, including any character's thoughts

  8. 3rd Person Limited(he, she, they) • Presents the events of a story from the perspective of only one character • No special insight into other characters’ minds or motivations

  9. Which point of view? 1. “I had waited so long for my dogs, and I so desperately wanted to see them and hold them.”

  10. Which point of view? 2. “The fight had been terrible. Erin knew she had been right to confront her mother, but a small part of her wished that she hadn’t. What if things never went back to normal?”

  11. Which point of view? 3. “The fight had been terrible. Erin knew she had been right to confront her mother, but a small part of her wished that she hadn’t. Little did she know that her mom felt the same way about the argument.”

  12. Which point of view? 4. You creep slowly into the dark mouth of the cave. Your heart is pounding; your palms are sweating. You close your eyes and try to calm yourself. You wonder if you will make it back out alive.

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