Point of View: The 4th Element of a Story

In order to understand a certain story, it is essential to learn the elements of the story. Aside from the plot, characters, settings and theme, I would like to stress more emphasis on the Point of View for this part seems so queer or hard to identify when analyzing a story.

Point of View presents the stance or shall we say the personality of a story. It implies the kind of attitude of the narrator towards the theme, plot and most especially to the characters of the story respectively.

When we say Third Person Point of View, the narrator does not do something or does not show any participation in the action of the story. It is like the outside voice that only allows the readers to exactly know each individual character on how each one feels.

When we speak about First Person Point of View, the narrator lives in the character/s in the story. It leads the audience or the readers to have the "feel" that they are the scene itself in the time the narrator tells the story.

On the other hand, Omniscient Point of View shares that the narrator is like having the ultimate power to know everything about the characters - what they do and how they behave or display their attitudes in the story. In this, the narrator knows. That is why, he can tell perfectly the feelings, actions and plans of each character.

Limited Omniscient Point of View obviously has only limited knowledge of the characters of the story. It is quite hard to predict the nature of the character, but it can only be noticeable through the characters conversations and/or thoughts as the story unfolds.

I hope you find delight on what point of view you are looking into while talking the time to fully involve yourself to feed your mind in reading stories.

Word Associations: Forming Links

Writing is a whole lot of fun just as a poet loves to make poems everyday. The art in writing needs an expert and humorous sense of using and even playing with worlds to form meaning. That is where, word associations set in.

Word associations are ways for you to form links as you think of the word/s. It simply drives you to recall the words that you have learned way pass before. It is classified as: 1. Characteristics or property (example: teacher - brilliant, strict, witty); 2. Assonance (example: night - knight, flight - plight); 3. Completion or compounding (example: black + board = blackboard); 4. Contrast or antonym (example: beautiful - ugly, fat - thin); 5. Predication (example: dog - bark, eat, bite); 6. Similarity or synonyms (example: beautiful - wonderful, pretty); 7. Derivation (example: invite - invitation, talk - talkative); 8. Subordination (example: flower - rose, daisy); 9. Coordination (example: guitar - violin, harp) and 10. Superordination (example: Chevrolet - car, Celine Dion - singer)

Word associations help form ideas and it simply ignites memory. It is also a way of creating meaning and associating them to unlock sophisticated writings.