The Hidden Camera

1. The Hidden Camera RL7 Point of View

2. Zee Target I can analyze a point of view which requires distinguishing double meaning with little information given. I can analyze a point of view which requires distinguishing double meaning. I can analyze a point of view which is directly stated and understand that there is a second meaning.

3. Just think… 1 accident, 5 points of view

4. Guilty Killer or Innocent Patient?

5. Why Care? Point of view influences how we view the characters and events of a story Characters aren’t always truthful Characters sometimes have hidden meanings and agendas

6. Point of View • Who tells the story • Language used: • First • Second • Third • Knowledge shared: • Objective: narrator never shares anything about what the characters think or feel • Limited: narrator shares inner thoughts and feelings of one character • Omniscient: narrator knows everything about all characters

7. Hidden Point of View • Tricks to hide the true point of view: • Understatement • Irony • Sarcasm

8. Understatement • a writer or speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important or serious than it is: saying “This is a slight problem” when the entire building caves in from a bad storm

9. Irony • the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, “How nice!” when I said I had to work all weekend. • an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected: marriage is an institution built on love, yet it often ends in hate • dramatic: audience knows what the characters do not

10. Is it really ironic? Ironic by Alanis Morissette

11. Sarcasm • A sharp, cutting, and/or mocking remark that uses irony: saying “You’re so intelligent” to someone who makes a mistake on something Big Bang Theory

12. Practice • Find 3 examples of irony, sarcasm, or understatement in the play; for each: • What is the double meaning? • Why did Shakespeare include it?Consider what it tells us about characters or events.