Module 2.3: Voice and Viewpoint Flashcards
Consider the importance of voice and viewpoint in a text and what they contribute to the effects created by a writer.
What is voice?
The way a writer or speaker expresses their unique style, tone, and personality through their words.
What is first-person narrative?
Narrative from the perspective of a character.
What is second-person narrative?
The narrator speaking directly to the reader, therefore making them the protagonist.
What is third-person narrative?
The narrator is outside of the story referring to characters by their name or pronouns.
What are the four types of narrator?
Omniscient, limited, fallible, and unusal.
What is an omniscient narrator?
A narrator who sees or understands everything.
What is a limited narrator?
A narrator that has some knowledge but not a complete understanding.
What is a fallible narrator?
A narrator that is lying, has misread the situation, or has been inconsistent in the past.
What is an unusual narrator?
A narrator that doesn’t fit into the usual categories (an animal, a dead person, an inanimate object).
Define narrative point of view.
The perspective from which a story is told.
What four elements can help the reader figure out the narrative point of view?
Emotive verbs, imperatives, comparatives, and superlatives.
Define direct and indirect speech.
Direct speech is the actual words spoken in a conversation enclosed in speech marks. Indirect speech is when the words spoken by a person are reported or paraphrased without directly quoting them, often with changes in tense and pronouns
