Intro to Lit PowerPoint Group 2

1. Narration and POV
By: Stephanie Edwards, Kathryn Molica &
Samantha Weitzel

2. Narration
 Is the act of telling a sequence of
events, often in chronological order.
 It’s a story, whether in prose or verse,
involving events, characters, and what
the characters say and do.

3. Narration
Reliable
 Does not typically impede a
truthful account of the story.
 Can give impartial accounts
and is able to distance
themselves from the
characters.
 Has a creditable
authoritative voice in a
narrative.
Unreliable
 Can not be trusted because
of ignorance or self-interest.
 Speaks with a bias.
 Also makes mistakes or tells
lies.
The purpose of this is to determine whether the narrator is
being honest or lying.

5. Narration
 The narrator is reliable because he/she is outside
looking in.
 Faulkner uses an unknown character, therefore
nothing to gain or lose.
 Narrator is removed from Miss Emily and doesn’t have
ill feelings towards any of the characters.

7. Narration
 Montresor is not reliable and trustworthy.
 Montresor has a resentful mindset towards
Fortunato.
 Montresor's’ conclusion is not based in
reality.

8. POV
 Literature provides a lens through which readers
look at the world. Point of view is the way the
author allows you to “see” and “hear” what is going
on.
 (Purpose): Skillful authors can fix their readers’
attention on exactly the detail, opinion, or emotion
the author wants to emphasize by manipulation the
point of view of the story.

9. First Person
“I” “We”
Third Person
Objective
“Fly on the wall”
Third Person
Omniscient
“Knows Everything”

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11. Third Person Subjective
The narrator was not involved in the
plot, however he/she was an outsider
looking in.
 When the narrator speaks about Emily
and the townspeople, he/she doesn’t
claim those thoughts as their own.
 Faulkner uses an unknown character to
tell the story

12. Quotes
 “Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a
disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young
people.”
 “People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt,
her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last,
believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too
high for what they really were.”

14. First Person
This short story uses the word “I”.
 Montresor tells the story from only his
perspective.
 Montresor does not allow for outside sources
to influence his position.

15. Quotes
 “I have my doubts,” I replied; “and I was silly
enough to pay the full Amontillado price without
consulting you in the matter.”
 “I had scarcely laid in the first tier of the
masonry when I discovered that the
intoxication of Fortunato had in great measure
worn off.”

16. Works Cited
Faulkner, William. "A Rose for a Emily." Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to
Literature. New York: W.W Norton & Company, 2013. 516-522. Print.
Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Cask of Amontillado." Mays, Kelly J. The Norton Introduction to
Literature. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. 165-170. Print.