Advanced Placement English

Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing, Roberts and Jacobs 8th edition

Fiction: Reading and Study Guide Part Four: Point of View

Reading:
o Chapter 5: Point of View, pp. 210

Stories included in the readings:

o Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, pp. 226 Questions 2,3,5 o Shirley Jackson, The Lottery. pp. 233 Questions 1,2,3. o Katherine Mansfield, Miss Brill, pp. 239 Choose one question for your team to answer)

Literary Terms and Concepts to Know

point of view narrator narrative voice speaker first-person POV third-person narrator omniscient editorial omniscience neutral omniscience authorial voice limited omniscient narrator central consciousness stream-of-consciousness objective point of view first-person narrator unreliable narrator nave narrator

Skills to practice
1. identifying the point of view in the stories you read 2. analyzing the authors choice of point of view 3. finding the significant ways in which a storys point of view is related to characterization 4. finding whether a narrator has a particular agenda 5. explaining any shifts in point of view 6. imagining what would be lost or gained by changing the point of view within a given story