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Point of View/ Infer
Term | Definition |
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Point of View | The person from whose eyes the story is being told (where you place the camera) |
Pronouns used in 1st person | Mostly pronouns: "I","me", "my", "we", "us", |
Pronouns used in 3rd person limited | Mostly: "he", "she", "they" etc. |
Pronouns used in 3rd person unlimited (omniscient) | Most pronouns:"he", "she", "they", etc. |
Pronoun used in 2nd person | "You" |
1st person narrator involvement | The narrator is a character in the story and is not reliable. |
3rd person limited | The narrator is not a character in the story and there is a reporter of only one character's thoughts and feelings. |
3rd person omniscent | The narrator is not a character in the story and is in every character's mind, all places, past, future etc. (All knowing) |
Examples of text in 2nd person | recipes and directions |
Inference | guess you make to infer using your background knowledge and knowledge of text to figure out details, etc. |
Prediction | making a guess about what might happen next |