By the Waters of BabylonStephen Vincent Benet English II

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LESSON OBJECTIVES• Analyze narrative devices

• Define foreshadowing andflashbacks

• Identify point of view in a story

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What do you see in this picture?

Write a short story or journal entry

about it.

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POINT OF VIEW• The vantage point from which the story is told.

• Created by the author’s choice of narrator.

• Narrator can be a character in the story or an outside observer.

• Can be• First person (I, we). The narrator is a character in the story.• Third person limited (he, she, they). The narrator is an

outside observer.• Omniscient third person (he, we, they)

The narrator can see into the hearts and minds of all the characters.

POINT OF VIEW: HERE’S A TIP!1. I am in the room.

I = First person

2. You come in the room.

You = Second person

3. Then he or she came in the room.

He / She = Third person

NAÏVE NARRATOR• A kind of first person point of view

• The narrator doesn’t understand what he or she is seeing or experiencing

INFERENCES• Educated guesses

• What you know + guess = Inference

• Based on how the author uses things you know from your own life or what you have read somewhere else

FORESHADOWING• When an author gives you hints

about what is to come

• A way of capturing the passage of time

• Without these hints, the end of the story might not make sense

FLASHBACK• a scene in a movie, novel, etc., set in

a time earlier than the main story.

• A sudden and disturbing vivid memory of an event in the past.

ALLUSION• An indirect reference to a famous

person, place, event, or literary work.

• The title of Stephen Vincent Bent’s story, “By the Waters of Babylon,” is an allusion to Psalm 137 which begins with “By the waters of Babylon”

• Don McLean – “Waters of Babylon”