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What is a point of view in literature? What are some examples of different kinds of points of view? The novelist and Senior Lecturer John Larison answers these questions using examples from everyday life and video games. The short video is designed to help high school and college English students to not only identify different points of view in stories but also to analyze their purposes and effects.
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction to Point of View
0:44 Third-Person Point of View
2:27 Second-Person Point of View
3:27 First-Person Point of View
4:41 Direct Address Point of View
5:15 Point of View in Video Games
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