English Language Arts and Reading.5.10.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.

Provide students with a text in which the author uses first-person point of view. Task students with identifying and explaining the story's point of view and providing specific evidence from the text that indicate first-person point of view. Have students explain what they learned about the character as a result of first-person point of view. Answers will vary but should include that they learned about a particular character's thoughts and feelings.
 

Further Explanation

This assessment requires students to recognize when the author uses the first-person point of view in a story and explain how they know this. Students must also understand and explain that the author's use of the first-person point of view enables the reader to understand more about a particular character in the story. It is important for students to develop knowledge of a variety of literary devices. As such, this activity can be completed with multiple literary devices.

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.
a specific convention of language or tool (e.g., repetition, alliteration, figurative language, foreshadowing, irony) employed by the author to produce a specific effect or communicate a particular detail or message
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 be able to understand that authors use literary devices such as repetition, alliteration, figurative language, foreshadowing, irony, or metaphor to produce a given effect on the reader and to communicate a particular detail or message. For example, an author may want to choose a metaphor to emphasize the attributes of a character in a story. When the author uses a sentence like, “Ivan was a rabbit on the basketball court!” the author implies that Ivan was playing fast and agile, much like rabbits move.

Research

1. Dallacqua, A.K. (2012). Exploring literary devices in graphic novels. Language Arts, 89(6), 365–378. Retrieved from https://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Journals/LA/0896-jul2012/LA0896Exploring.pdf

Summary: Dallacqua presents an innovative approach to exploring literary devices by using comics. The study emphasized the importance of multimodality, especially as it related to visual literacy. Multiple online resources and definitions are included. The article includes the multiple uses of graphic novels as part of an RELA class.