Autobiography/Personal Narratives

• Different Styles/Types

• Point of View

• Jargon

• Simile/Metaphors

• Hyperbole

• Idiom

• Theme/Moral

Styles or Types• Journals/Diaries

– Dear Journal vs. Dear Diary– Discovery– Very personal

• Introspective (deep)• Reflective

• Narratives– Tells a story (real or fiction) about one event– Serious, Satire, Humorous/Entertaining, Informing– Moral/Theme

• Autobiography– Covers several stories throughout one’s life– Serious, Entertaining, Informing– Personal

• Reflective

Point of View• 1st Person Point of View

– 1st person pronouns• I, Me, My, our,

– The narrator participate in the action of the story– the narrator is recounting might not be the objective truth – readers should question the trustworthiness of the account

• 2nd Person Point of View– 2nd person pronouns

• You, your, yours, you’re– The narrator tells the story to another character using "you," so that the story is being told through the

addressee's point of view. – Second person is the least commonly used POV in fiction, though there are a few examples.

• Many of the stories in Lorrie Moore's book "Self-Help" are written in the second person, • Tom Robbins's "Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas," is second POV which begins:

– "The day the stock market falls out of bed and breaks its back is the worst day of your life. Or so you think. It isn't the worst day of your life, but you think it is."

• 3rd Person Point of View– 3rd person pronouns

• Her, she, his, him, they, their, them– The narrator does not participate in the action of the story as one of the characters, but lets the reader know

exactly how the characters feel. The reader learns about the characters through this outside voice. – Omniscient

• A narrator who knows everything about all the characters is all knowing, or omniscient.– Limited Omniscient Points of View

• A narrator whose knowledge is limited to one character, either major or minor, has a limited omniscient point of view.

http://www.epcc.edu/Student/Tutorial/Writingcenter/Handouts/grammar/pointofview.pdf

JargonDefinition: The specialized or technical

language of a trade, profession, or similar group.

Examples: Doctors would use Medical Jargon. The words such as conjunctivitis, rhinoplasty, and cornea would be used by a doctor, and usually ONLY a doctor would know what the words mean.

In the story “DEBBIE” find 5 (five) words used that are an example of Jargon a Veterinarian would use in their profession.

Figurative Language

Find an example of the following figurative language techniques used in the two stories read in class today.

• One Simile

• One Metaphor

• 5 sensory details

Theme/Moral• The theme of a fable is its moral. • The theme of a parable is its teaching. • The theme of a piece of fiction is its view about life and how people

behave.• In fiction, the theme is not intended to teach or preach. In fact, it is

not presented directly at all. You, the reader, must interpret or infer it from the characters, action, and setting that make up the story.

Some ways to uncover the theme in a story: • Check out the title.

– Sometimes it tells you a lot about the theme.• Notice repeating patterns and symbols.

– Sometimes these lead you to the theme.• What allusions are made throughout the story?• What are the details and particulars in the story?

– What greater meaning may they have?

Morals and Lessonslearned in literature