English Language Arts and Reading.4.10.E

The student is expected to

identify and understand the use of literary devices, including first- or third-person point of view;

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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances.

Have students work in small groups, moving from one chart to another, each of which has an excerpt from a text. Task students with identifying whether the text uses first- or third-person point of view.

 

Further Explanation

Students should understand that an author may choose to write in first person when the author wants the reader to experience the plot through the main character’s point of view and third person when the author wants the reader to experience the plot through the narrator’s point of view.

a narrative perspective restricted to that of the author/narrator’s thoughts and feelings as the central character and point of view in the story First-person point of view requires the use of first-person pronouns such as I, me, my, or us.
recognize the characteristics of something, such as a word or character, or distinguish it from others
the perspective from which the events in the story are told
a narrative perspective that includes the thoughts and feelings of one (third person limited) or more of the characters/people (third person omniscient) in a story or text and uses third-person pronouns such as he, she, or they
Literary devices are specific language techniques that convey meaning and bring clarity to a text. Students should understand that authors use literary devices, such as point of view and figurative language, to tell a story or communicate a message. For example, authors may choose to write in first-person point of view when they want the reader to experience the plot through the main character’s point of view. The repetition of the word I can make it easier for the reader to relate to and empathize with the main character.