Vietnam: What does narrative point of view mean? How many narrative points of view are there? How to distinguish between different narrative points of view?

What does narrative point of view mean? How many narrative points of view are there? How to distinguish between different narrative points of view?

Narrative point of view means the communicative position that the narrator uses when retelling a story. The narrative point of view determines how the story is conveyed to the reader or listener and has a significant impact on their perception of the story.

In literature, there are 3 narrative points of view:

(1) First-Person Point of View:

- Characteristics: The narrator uses "I" or "we", telling the story from their own perspective.

- Identifier: When reading, you will notice the narrator uses pronouns "I" or "we". Example: "I saw that" or "We experienced difficult times."

- Effect: Creates closeness, authenticity, and a high degree of personal connection, helping readers easily empathize with the main character.

(2) Second-Person Point of View:

- Characteristics: The narrator uses the pronoun "you" to tell the story, creating a feeling of direct communication with the reader.

- Identifier: When reading, you will notice the narrator uses the pronoun "you". Example: "How would you feel if this happened to you?"

- Effect: Creates closeness, authenticity, and a high degree of personal connection, helping readers easily empathize with the main character.

(3) Third-Person Point of View:

- Characteristics: The narrator is outside the story, using character names or pronouns "he", "she", "they" to recount events.

- Identifier: When reading, you will notice the narrator uses character names or pronouns like "he", "she", "they". Example: "He decided to leave the village" or "The girl quickly ran home."

- Effect: Offers a broad, comprehensive view of events and characters, making the story objective and rich.

Examples:

- First-Person Point of View:

The work: "Nhật ký Đặng Thùy Trâm" by Dang Thuy Tram: I lived the most challenging days of my life on the battlefield, but they were also the most memorable days.

- Second-Person Point of View:

The work: "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" by Italo Calvino: You are sitting in a quiet room, holding this book and beginning to read. You feel like you're stepping into another world.

- Third-Person Point of View:

The work: "Chí Phèo" by Nam Cao: Chi Pheo returned to Vu Dai village after many years in prison. He was no longer the Chi Pheo of the past but was a completely different person.

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What knowledge does the 6th-grade Literature curriculum in Vietnam cover?

According to the General education program in Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT/BGDDT, the 6th-grade Literature curriculum in Vietnam covers the following knowledge:

1.1. Single words and compound words, compound words and reduplicative words

1.2. Polysemous words and homonyms

1.3. Meanings of some common idioms

1.4. Meanings of some common Sino-Vietnamese elements (e.g., bat, phi) and the meanings of words containing those elements (e.g., bat cong, bat dong, phi nghia, phi li)

2.1. Main components of sentences: expanding the main components of sentences using phrases

2.2. Sentence adverbials: characteristics, functions to connect sentences

2.3. Functions of semicolons (marking boundaries between components in a complex list); quotation marks (marking the understanding of a word/phrase not according to its usual meaning)

3.1. Rhetorical devices of metaphor, metonymy: characteristics and effects

3.2. Paragraphs and texts: characteristics and functions

3.3. Choosing words and some sentence structures appropriate for expressing textual meaning

3.4. Types and genres of texts

- Narrative text: a paper recounting a personal experience, a paper retelling a folk tale

- Descriptive text: a paper describing daily scenes

- Expressive text: six-eight poetry; a paragraph recording emotions when reading six-eight poetry

- Argumentative text: opinions, reasoning, evidence; a paper presenting opinions on a phenomenon in learning, life

- Informative text: headings, subheads, bold text, numbering, and bullet points; an informative text narrating an event; recorded minutes of an incident or meeting, discussion

4.1. Language development: the phenomenon of borrowing words, borrowed words, using borrowed words

4.2. Non-verbal communication tools: images, statistics

What literary knowledge does the 6th-grade Literature curriculum in Vietnam cover?

According to the General education program in Literature issued with Circular 32/2018/TT/BGDDT, the 6th-grade Literature curriculum in Vietnam covers the following literary knowledge:

1.1. Expressiveness of literary texts

1.2. Details and the relationship between details in literary texts

1.3. Subject matter, theme of the text; feelings, emotions of the writer

2.1. Elements: plot, characters, narrator's voice, and character's voice in legends, fairy tales, fables

2.2. First-person narrator and third-person narrator

2.3. Structural elements of six-eight poetry: number of syllables, lines, rhyme, rhythm

2.4. Title, line of poetry, stanza, rhyme, rhythm, language, and effects of those elements in a poem

2.5. Narrative, descriptive elements in poetry

2.6. Forms of writing, storytelling techniques, first-person narration in memoirs or travel notes