Unit III Narrator and Voice
Academic Vocabulary
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Persona: A mask or a voice for a character.
Point of View: The vantage point from which a writer tells a story.
First Person Narrator: A character in the story using the pronoun “I.”
Omniscient Narrator: ALL knowing ALL seeing narrator.
Third-Person limited (Point of View): The storyteller zooms in on one character. The
readers follow that one character, but we know a small amount of information about
the other characters.
6. Credible Narrator: A narrator you can believe.
7. Unreliable Narrator: A narrator you cannot trust. A narrator that does not tell the
truth.
8. Tone: The attitude a speaker or writer takes toward a subject, character, or audience.
9. Voice: Writer’s overall use of language and style.
10. Diction: Writer’s choice of words.
11. Surprise Ending: An ending you do not expect.
12. Moral: A message about how we should live our lives.
13. Draw a Conclusion: Make judgments based on evidence.
14. Irony: The difference between reality and expectations.
15. Verbal Irony: The character says one thing but means the opposite.
16. Dramatic Irony: The reader/audience knows something the character does not.
17. Situational Irony: The situation the character finds him/herself in is the opposite of
what is/was expected.
18. Tag-Line: Key line in a story.
Informational Material
1. Synthesize: Reading many different sources about a topic and putting all that
information together.
2. Find the Main Idea: What is the writer’s main idea.
3. Paraphrase: Put it into your own words.
4. Look for evidence: Facts, statistics, anecdotes to support the main idea.
5. Compare and Contrast: Look for similarities and differences between sources.
6. Make Connections: Does the information remind you of previous material.
7. Pull it all together: Create a report/presentation.