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Hidden Meanings: Analyzing Point of View in Literature

Uncover the hidden truths within stories by delving into different points of view. Explore how perspective influences character portrayal and narrative events. Learn about irony, sarcasm, and understatement as tools to reveal deeper meanings. Practice identifying double entendres and their significance in literary works.

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Hidden Meanings: Analyzing Point of View in Literature

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  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.

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