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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 7
Strand - Reading Literature
Cluster - Craft and Structure
[RL.7.6] - Analyze how an author develops and contrasts the points of view of different characters or narrators in a text.
- Analysis (Analyze)
In general, a careful examination of the parts of a whole and their relationships to one another; in language arts, a study of how words, sentences, paragraphs, stanzas, or sections of a text affect its meaning. - Character
Person who takes part in the action of a story or drama; may also be an animal or imaginary creature, especially in fables and early emergent reader texts. - Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
- Narrator
Person or voice relating a narrative; in fiction, may be a character who participates in the action or a voice external to the story. Some texts have multiple narrators. See Point of view. - Point of view
In the study of literary texts, the vantage point from which a story is told: for example, in the first-person point of view, the story is told by one of the characters, while in the third-person point of view, the story is told by someone outside the story. More broadly, point of view can refer to any position or perspective conveyed or represented by an author, narrator, speaker, or character.
[RL.6.6] -
Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
[RL.8.6] -
Analyze how differences in point of view between characters and audience (e.g., created through the use of dramatic irony) create such effects as suspense or humor.