Literary Examples of Author's Perspective in Grade 8 Texts

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🧭 Author's Perspective: The author's feelings, attitudes, and beliefs about a topic or subject. It shapes how they present information and characters.
• 👁️‍🗨️ Identifying Perspective: Look for the author's word choice (diction), tone (attitude), and the details they emphasize.
• 🎭 First Person: Uses "I" or "we." The reader experiences the story through the narrator's eyes.
• 🗣️ Third Person Limited: Focuses on one character's thoughts and feelings using "he," "she," or "they."
• 🌍 Third Person Omniscient: The narrator knows everything about all characters and events.
• 🖋️ Impact: Author's perspective influences the reader's understanding and interpretation of the text.
• 🔎 Bias: Author's perspective can reveal a bias, which is a tendency to favor one viewpoint over others.

Practice Quiz

1. Which of the following BEST describes an author's perspective?
   1. The main character's favorite color.
   2. The author's feelings, attitudes, and beliefs about a subject.
   3. The number of pages in the book.
   4. The font used in the text.
2. In a story written from a first-person perspective, which pronoun would the narrator MOST likely use?
   1. He
   2. She
   3. I
   4. They
3. An author writes about the Civil War, focusing primarily on the experiences of enslaved people. What does this MOST likely reveal about the author's perspective?
   1. The author is interested in military history.
   2. The author sympathizes with the Confederacy.
   3. The author wants to highlight the injustices of slavery.
   4. The author is writing a fictional story.
4. Which of the following details would be MOST helpful in identifying an author's perspective?
   1. The book's publication date.
   2. The author's word choice and tone.
   3. The length of the chapters.
   4. The book's cover design.
5. A passage describes a character as "cunning" and "deceitful." What does this suggest about the narrator's perspective on this character?
   1. The narrator admires the character.
   2. The narrator disapproves of the character.
   3. The narrator is indifferent to the character.
   4. The narrator is jealous of the character.
6. In third-person omniscient, the narrator knows:
   1. Only what the main character knows.
   2. Everything about all characters and events.
   3. Only the setting of the story.
   4. Only the dialogue between characters.
7. An author repeatedly uses negative language when describing a particular country. What might this suggest about their perspective?
   1. The author has never visited the country.
   2. The author has a favorable view of the country.
   3. The author has a neutral view of the country.
   4. The author has a negative view of the country.