Question
Choose the correct answer.
The literary point of view deals with ...
the plot and genre
different kinds of positions a writer or narrator may take in a text
the reader's impression of the setting
2) Choose the correct answer.
In limited point of view, the narrator has inside knowledge of ______ of the character’s ______ and feelings.
none;motivations
the background;appearance
one; thoughts
3) Choose the correct answer.
In ______ point of view, the writer has inside knowledge of all of the characters’ actions and thoughts.
focused
omniscient
limited
4) Choose the correct answer.
Fictionalizing a historical event is _______ what other characters are thinking or doing.
replacing
inferring
ignoring
5) Choose the correct answer.
When using the ______ point of view, the author uses the pronoun ______, which speaks to the reader and can become more informal, persuasive, and emotional.
first person; I
second-person; you
third person narrator; them
6) Choose the correct answer.
Point of view and ______ are similar in meaning.
narrator
genre
perspective
Chains
Reader! Are you with the man-stealers in sympathy and purpose, or on the side of their downtrodden victims? If with the former, then are you the foe of God and man. If with the latter, what are you prepared to do and dare in their behalf? Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may—cost what it may—inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto—“NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!”
Answer the following questions.
7) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
The literary point of view is __________.
first
second
third
8) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
The main effect on the reader is _______.
confusion
persuasion
surprise
This Narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power; but I think the most thrilling one of them all is the description Douglass gives of his feelings, as he stood soliloquizing respecting his fate, and the chances of his one day being a freeman on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay.
–William Lloyd Garrison (1845)
___________________________________________________________________________
Answer the following questions.
9) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
The point of view is __________.
first
second
third
10) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
Using this point of view, the narrator ___.
is unknown
is able to give a personal opinion
is persuasive
Bias
For every event, object, or idea, people have different perspectives. For example, if an event occurred in a schoolyard, and a principal asked each student personally what happened, the principal would get different perspectives. Several witnesses would have to be heard to come up with what really happened. Each student would probably have his own bias, giving a different opinion or showing favoritism toward a person or idea. Also, each student would only see a part of the situation and make a judgment based on that part.
Look at the graphic and read the explanation of the fable from India, “Blind Men and the Elephant.” What were they arguing about?
___________________________________________________________________________
There is only one elephant. Each blind man describes the elephant differently.
One says, “he is like a wall,” feeling the side of the elephant. Another says, “he is like a spear,” feeling the tusk. Another says, “he is like a snake,” feeling the trunk. The last one says when feeling a leg, “he is like a tree.”
They continued to argue, each with his own perspective, each with an inaccurate description of what an elephant actually looks like.
Ink drawing of men touching an elephant
___________________________________________________________________________
Transcript
A reader will always bring their prior knowledge when comprehending the meaning of a text. On the other hand, writers can choose any perspective with which to introduce a story or idea.
News reports should report just facts and not show bias. However, today, we find much bias where it should not be. Intentionally or unintentionally, authors may not be completely fair about a topic or write from a limited perspective. Just leaving out information and focusing on certain aspects of a circumstance is also bias.
Read the excerpt of an author discussing her opinion about women and the analysis that follows.
The great mass of women can never be made to take a deep, a sincere, a discriminating, and a lasting interest in the thousand political questions ever arising to be settled by the vote. They very soon weary of such questions. On great occasions, they can work themselves up to a state of frenzied excitement over some one political question. But, in their natural condition, in everyday life, they do not take instinctively to politics as men do. Men are born politicians just as they are born masons, and carpenters, and soldiers, and sailors. Not so women. Their thoughts and feelings are given to other matters. With men, on the contrary, politics, either directly or indirectly, are closely, palpably, inevitably blended with their regular work in life.
Old photo of Susan Fenimore Cooper
1818–1894
Susan Fenimore Cooper
___________________________________________________________________________
Analyze: This excerpt is written in third-person point of view. What is the author’s perspective? She takes an authoritarian position and speaks for all women. This text is about why women do not need the right to vote. Cooper says women are not interested or knowledgeable about politics.
Answer the following questions.
11) Match the terms with the definitions.
unfair opinion or favoritism
from the speaker’s personal direction, using “I”
using third-person point of view and showing only one character’s thoughts
when an author gives the personal viewpoints and feelings of all characters
from what direction and position an author writes, relating to the craft of a written work
view or angle from which an author or reader sees an idea from his own views or attitudes
using the familiar “you” or implied “you” as in a command like, “Pay attention.”
using pronouns, he, she, it, or they, and not using, I, we, you, or us; Writers speak about other people or things, not themselves.
12) Choose the correct answer.
The two things that cause a person to be biased are _______ or _______ toward a person or idea.
opinion; favoritism
acrimony; ignorance
prejudice; preference
13) Choose the correct answer.
What is it that a reader brings into the understanding or meaning of a text?
A reader brings an unsubstantiated opinion.
A reader brings in a blank slate.
A reader brings in prior knowledge.
14) Choose the correct answer.
Unbiased literature is like a(n) ______ where only the facts should be conveyed.
novel
dictionary
news report
15) Choose the correct answer.
Writers can also show bias by leaving out certain _______ and focusing on certain aspects of a situation.
characters
information
setting details
16) Choose the correct answer.
Susan Fenimore Cooper believed that women should not have the right to vote because ...
“They would fail to exercise suffrage and therefore make a mockery of democracy.”
“They soon weary of such questions” and/or “their thoughts and feelings are given to other matters” and/or “they do not take instinctively to politics as men do.”
“They would unduly influence the outcome of elections.”
17) Choose the correct answer.
What is the main reason that Cooper’s idea is biased?
She takes an authoritarian position and speaks for all women.
She was an appointed state official who wanted to keep her job.
She had exercised the right to vote while living in Wyoming.
The literary point of view deals with ...
the plot and genre
different kinds of positions a writer or narrator may take in a text
the reader's impression of the setting
2) Choose the correct answer.
In limited point of view, the narrator has inside knowledge of ______ of the character’s ______ and feelings.
none;motivations
the background;appearance
one; thoughts
3) Choose the correct answer.
In ______ point of view, the writer has inside knowledge of all of the characters’ actions and thoughts.
focused
omniscient
limited
4) Choose the correct answer.
Fictionalizing a historical event is _______ what other characters are thinking or doing.
replacing
inferring
ignoring
5) Choose the correct answer.
When using the ______ point of view, the author uses the pronoun ______, which speaks to the reader and can become more informal, persuasive, and emotional.
first person; I
second-person; you
third person narrator; them
6) Choose the correct answer.
Point of view and ______ are similar in meaning.
narrator
genre
perspective
Chains
Reader! Are you with the man-stealers in sympathy and purpose, or on the side of their downtrodden victims? If with the former, then are you the foe of God and man. If with the latter, what are you prepared to do and dare in their behalf? Be faithful, be vigilant, be untiring in your efforts to break every yoke, and let the oppressed go free. Come what may—cost what it may—inscribe on the banner which you unfurl to the breeze, as your religious and political motto—“NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERY! NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS!”
Answer the following questions.
7) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
The literary point of view is __________.
first
second
third
8) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
The main effect on the reader is _______.
confusion
persuasion
surprise
This Narrative contains many affecting incidents, many passages of great eloquence and power; but I think the most thrilling one of them all is the description Douglass gives of his feelings, as he stood soliloquizing respecting his fate, and the chances of his one day being a freeman on the banks of the Chesapeake Bay.
–William Lloyd Garrison (1845)
___________________________________________________________________________
Answer the following questions.
9) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
The point of view is __________.
first
second
third
10) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
Using this point of view, the narrator ___.
is unknown
is able to give a personal opinion
is persuasive
Bias
For every event, object, or idea, people have different perspectives. For example, if an event occurred in a schoolyard, and a principal asked each student personally what happened, the principal would get different perspectives. Several witnesses would have to be heard to come up with what really happened. Each student would probably have his own bias, giving a different opinion or showing favoritism toward a person or idea. Also, each student would only see a part of the situation and make a judgment based on that part.
Look at the graphic and read the explanation of the fable from India, “Blind Men and the Elephant.” What were they arguing about?
___________________________________________________________________________
There is only one elephant. Each blind man describes the elephant differently.
One says, “he is like a wall,” feeling the side of the elephant. Another says, “he is like a spear,” feeling the tusk. Another says, “he is like a snake,” feeling the trunk. The last one says when feeling a leg, “he is like a tree.”
They continued to argue, each with his own perspective, each with an inaccurate description of what an elephant actually looks like.
Ink drawing of men touching an elephant
___________________________________________________________________________
Transcript
A reader will always bring their prior knowledge when comprehending the meaning of a text. On the other hand, writers can choose any perspective with which to introduce a story or idea.
News reports should report just facts and not show bias. However, today, we find much bias where it should not be. Intentionally or unintentionally, authors may not be completely fair about a topic or write from a limited perspective. Just leaving out information and focusing on certain aspects of a circumstance is also bias.
Read the excerpt of an author discussing her opinion about women and the analysis that follows.
The great mass of women can never be made to take a deep, a sincere, a discriminating, and a lasting interest in the thousand political questions ever arising to be settled by the vote. They very soon weary of such questions. On great occasions, they can work themselves up to a state of frenzied excitement over some one political question. But, in their natural condition, in everyday life, they do not take instinctively to politics as men do. Men are born politicians just as they are born masons, and carpenters, and soldiers, and sailors. Not so women. Their thoughts and feelings are given to other matters. With men, on the contrary, politics, either directly or indirectly, are closely, palpably, inevitably blended with their regular work in life.
Old photo of Susan Fenimore Cooper
1818–1894
Susan Fenimore Cooper
___________________________________________________________________________
Analyze: This excerpt is written in third-person point of view. What is the author’s perspective? She takes an authoritarian position and speaks for all women. This text is about why women do not need the right to vote. Cooper says women are not interested or knowledgeable about politics.
Answer the following questions.
11) Match the terms with the definitions.
unfair opinion or favoritism
from the speaker’s personal direction, using “I”
using third-person point of view and showing only one character’s thoughts
when an author gives the personal viewpoints and feelings of all characters
from what direction and position an author writes, relating to the craft of a written work
view or angle from which an author or reader sees an idea from his own views or attitudes
using the familiar “you” or implied “you” as in a command like, “Pay attention.”
using pronouns, he, she, it, or they, and not using, I, we, you, or us; Writers speak about other people or things, not themselves.
12) Choose the correct answer.
The two things that cause a person to be biased are _______ or _______ toward a person or idea.
opinion; favoritism
acrimony; ignorance
prejudice; preference
13) Choose the correct answer.
What is it that a reader brings into the understanding or meaning of a text?
A reader brings an unsubstantiated opinion.
A reader brings in a blank slate.
A reader brings in prior knowledge.
14) Choose the correct answer.
Unbiased literature is like a(n) ______ where only the facts should be conveyed.
novel
dictionary
news report
15) Choose the correct answer.
Writers can also show bias by leaving out certain _______ and focusing on certain aspects of a situation.
characters
information
setting details
16) Choose the correct answer.
Susan Fenimore Cooper believed that women should not have the right to vote because ...
“They would fail to exercise suffrage and therefore make a mockery of democracy.”
“They soon weary of such questions” and/or “their thoughts and feelings are given to other matters” and/or “they do not take instinctively to politics as men do.”
“They would unduly influence the outcome of elections.”
17) Choose the correct answer.
What is the main reason that Cooper’s idea is biased?
She takes an authoritarian position and speaks for all women.
She was an appointed state official who wanted to keep her job.
She had exercised the right to vote while living in Wyoming.
Answers
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Here are the answers based on the questions you provided:
1) Choose the correct answer.
**different kinds of positions a writer or narrator may take in a text**
2) Choose the correct answer.
**one; thoughts**
3) Choose the correct answer.
**omniscient**
4) Choose the correct answer.
**replacing**
5) Choose the correct answer.
**second-person; you**
6) Choose the correct answer.
**perspective**
7) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**second**
8) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**persuasion**
9) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**third**
10) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**is able to give a personal opinion**
11) Match the terms with the definitions.
- **unfair opinion or favoritism** - bias
- **from the speaker’s personal direction, using “I”** - first person
- **using third-person point of view and showing only one character’s thoughts** - limited point of view
- **when an author gives the personal viewpoints and feelings of all characters** - omniscient
- **from what direction and position an author writes, relating to the craft of a written work** - point of view
- **view or angle from which an author or reader sees an idea from his own views or attitudes** - perspective
- **using the familiar “you” or implied “you” as in a command like, “Pay attention.”** - second person
- **using pronouns, he, she, it, or they, and not using, I, we, you, or us; Writers speak about other people or things, not themselves.** - third person
12) Choose the correct answer.
**prejudice; preference**
13) Choose the correct answer.
**A reader brings in prior knowledge.**
14) Choose the correct answer.
**news report**
15) Choose the correct answer.
**information**
16) Choose the correct answer.
**“They soon weary of such questions” and/or “their thoughts and feelings are given to other matters” and/or “they do not take instinctively to politics as men do.”**
17) Choose the correct answer.
**She takes an authoritarian position and speaks for all women.**
Please let me know if you need further assistance!
1) Choose the correct answer.
**different kinds of positions a writer or narrator may take in a text**
2) Choose the correct answer.
**one; thoughts**
3) Choose the correct answer.
**omniscient**
4) Choose the correct answer.
**replacing**
5) Choose the correct answer.
**second-person; you**
6) Choose the correct answer.
**perspective**
7) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**second**
8) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**persuasion**
9) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**third**
10) Read the excerpt above. Then, choose the correct answer.
**is able to give a personal opinion**
11) Match the terms with the definitions.
- **unfair opinion or favoritism** - bias
- **from the speaker’s personal direction, using “I”** - first person
- **using third-person point of view and showing only one character’s thoughts** - limited point of view
- **when an author gives the personal viewpoints and feelings of all characters** - omniscient
- **from what direction and position an author writes, relating to the craft of a written work** - point of view
- **view or angle from which an author or reader sees an idea from his own views or attitudes** - perspective
- **using the familiar “you” or implied “you” as in a command like, “Pay attention.”** - second person
- **using pronouns, he, she, it, or they, and not using, I, we, you, or us; Writers speak about other people or things, not themselves.** - third person
12) Choose the correct answer.
**prejudice; preference**
13) Choose the correct answer.
**A reader brings in prior knowledge.**
14) Choose the correct answer.
**news report**
15) Choose the correct answer.
**information**
16) Choose the correct answer.
**“They soon weary of such questions” and/or “their thoughts and feelings are given to other matters” and/or “they do not take instinctively to politics as men do.”**
17) Choose the correct answer.
**She takes an authoritarian position and speaks for all women.**
Please let me know if you need further assistance!
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