Point of View & Narrator's Perspective Lesson | Teaching Common Core Rea...
The Narrator
or WHO ARE YOU? AND WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME THIS?
A crucial element of any work of fiction is the NARRATOR, the person who is telling the story (note that this isn't the same as the AUTHOR, the person who actually wrote the story).
What types of narrators are there? The first major distinction critics make about narrators is by person:
a FIRST PERSON narrator is an "I" (occasionally a "we") who speaks from her/his subject position. That narrator is usually a character in the story, who interacts with other characters; we see those interactions through the narrator's eyes, and we can't know anything the narrator doesn't know.
a SECOND PERSON narrator speaks in "you." This is an extremely rare case in American literature, although we will read a few examples.
a THIRD PERSON narrator is not a figure in the story, but an "observer" who is outside the action being described. A third-person narrator might be omniscient (ie, able to tell what all the characters are thinking), but that is not always the case. Third-person narration may also be focalized through a particular character, meaning that the narrator tells us how that character sees the world, but can't, or at least doesn't, read the mind of all the characters this way.
1.What is point of view? a)The position from which a narrator tells a story b)The moral of a story c)The genre to which a story belongs d)The personality of the main character in a story
2.If Tim wrote a story describing his interactions with Cassie
and Rita, what point of view would he most likely use? a)Second person b)Third person omniscient c)First person d)Third person limited
3.Which point of view would you most likely find in a newspaper
article about an artist or athlete? a)First person b)Third person omniscient c)Second person d)Third person limited
4.What point of view would you most likely find in a novel that
explores the deepst thoughts and feelings of a number of characters? a)First person b)Third person omniscient c)Second person d)Third person limited
5.What is unreliable narrator? a)A narrator who knows the thoughts and feelings of all
characters in a story b)A narrator who addresses the reader as “you” c)A narrator who may not know everything about all the
characters and events in a story d)A character in a story who deliberately lies to another
character
6.What effect might a second-person point of view have on a
story? a)It would allow the reader to know everything about all the
characters b)It would allow the reader to get to know the narrator’s
thoughts and feelings c)It would give the reader a broad picture about what’s going
on d)It would place the reader directly into the story
7.If you described your school principal as “omniscient,” what
would you probably mean? a)That she can read her students’ minds b)That she sees and knows everything that goes on at school c)That she is able to relate to students on a personal level d)That she is cruel and mean
8.“As you take the quiz, you feel your confidence growing, and
a smile creeps across your face.” What type of narration is this? a)First person b)Second person c)Third person limited d)Third person omniscient
9.“I couldn’t wait to meet my friend Rita, so I rode my bicycle
to her house as fast as I could.” What type of narration id this? a)First person b)Second person c)Third person limited d)Third person omniscient
10.Which of the following statements is true? a)Switching points of view can be confusing b)An omniscient narrator is usually a character in the story c)Most novels and short stories are written in the second
person d)Most newspaper articles are written in the first person
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