Todays Big Idea Ones point of view or

Today’s Big Idea • One’s point of view, or perspective, can make all the difference in a story and in life • There are three different types of irony, all of which involve a contrast between what is and what is expected or meant.

On the menu for today: • Review of yesterday’s elements of fiction (quizlets!!) • Define additional elements of fiction, including irony

By the end of today’s class, you should be able to say to yourself, if nothing else, … • I can identify and explain more elements of fiction, including the difference between three types of irony

POINT OF VIEW the perspective from which a story is told

FIRST PERSON • when the narrator is a character in a story (I, me, we)

THIRD PERSON • when the narrator is not a character in the story (he, she, it, they)

SETTING the time and place of the action in a story

THEME the moral, message, or lesson about life that the writer wants the reader to learn

VERBAL IRONY • Contrast between what is said and what is meant • Nice weather we are having!

DRAMATIC IRONY • Contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what the reader knows to be true. • When the reader is “in on a secret. ”

SITUATIONAL IRONY • contrast between what happens and what is expected. • someone playing a prank on someone else, it backfires, and the prankster gets a pie in the face.

Label the following three scenarios with which type of irony they exemplify. Email me some time today for the correct answers! • Jake thinks that a neighbor writes him a note about how terrible of a parker he is. Jake doesn’t know that I really wrote the note, but you do! shhhh • Jake parks his car in a way that takes up two spots. I say to Jake, “Way to go, Dale Earnhardt!” • Jake is the only one of his friends that passed the parking portion of his driver’s license test on the first try.