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The document discusses the impact of point of view on storytelling, highlighting three main types: first-person, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient. Each type affects the reader's understanding and connection to characters and events differently, with varying degrees of insight and reliability. A practice section encourages analysis of point of view in a chosen story, prompting reflection on how changes in perspective could alter the reader's experience.

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612le 13 SC effectsPOV

The document discusses the impact of point of view on storytelling, highlighting three main types: first-person, third-person limited, and third-person omniscient. Each type affects the reader's understanding and connection to characters and events differently, with varying degrees of insight and reliability. A practice section encourages analysis of point of view in a chosen story, prompting reflection on how changes in perspective could alter the reader's experience.

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Skills Coach

Analyze the Effects of Point of View

GET READY

When you read a story, your impression of characters and events is shaped by point of view—
the perspective or position from which the narrator tells the story. Authors choose a point of
view depending on what effects they want to have on the reader. There are three main types of
point of view.

Type of Point of View Effects

First-person narrator You can hear the thoughts and feelings of a


 is a character in the story character expressed in the character’s
 describes events using first-person distinct voice. The character seems to speak
pronouns (I, me, my) directly to you. But your knowledge of
 may be unreliable, offering an events is limited to what the character
incomplete or misleading account of understands and experiences. Also, the
events narrator may not be trustworthy.

Third-person limited narrator The character’s thoughts and feelings are


 is not a character in the story told in a less personal voice. You may feel
 describes events using third-person like you’re looking over the character’s
pronouns (she, him, they, theirs) shoulder as events unfold. The narrator can
 reveals the thoughts and feelings of just provide some information that the character
one character doesn’t know.

Third-person omniscient narrator An omniscient (all-knowing) narrator can


 is not a character in the story relate the thoughts and feelings of multiple
 describes events using third-person characters. The narrator can also provide
pronouns insights about story events that none of the
 can relate the thoughts and feelings of characters have. But you may find it harder
any character in the story to connect closely to any one character.
PRACTICE AND APPLY

Use the chart below to help you analyze the effects of point of view in a story of your choice.

Title: Enter title.

Is the narrator a yes


character in the
story?
no

Does the narrator one character


focus on one
character or multiple
characters? multiple characters

Which point of view first person


is used in the story?

third-person limited

third-person omniscient

What are the effects Enter your response.


of this point of view?

How would your Enter your response.


experience of the
story change if it
were told from a
different point of
view?

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