6.9E - The student is expected to identify the use of literary devices, including omniscient and limited point of view, to achieve a specific purpose.

• Literary devices are specific language techniques that convey meaning and bring clarity to a text. Students should understand that authors (and poets) use literary devices such as point of view to produce a given effect on the reader and to communicate a particular detail or message. For example, an author wanting to create suspense in a mystery novel might use a third-person limited point of view so the reader has no more insight into the motivations or mindsets of the other characters than the protagonist and, therefore, can speculate until the author chooses to reveal the mystery’s secret.
• limited point of view: a narrative perspective that is limited to the author's (poet's) or narrator’s (speaker's) understanding of only one character’s thoughts and feelings and in which the story follows that single character (usually the main character in narratives) using the third-person pronouns (e.g., he, she, they). A first-person point of view is also considered limited, since the narrator/speaker is also a character and therefore only able to give us their thoughts or feelings.