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Katherine, good job with this! You clearly identified the authors point of view
and the key words associated with it. Next time be sure to highlight where you
found the words in the text. Your next steps should be to further analyze how
point of view is used in the excerpt. You can do this by thinking about if more
than one point of view is used throughout the text. Go back to see if there are
any other words that might signal a different point of view, and if so which
one?
Katherine Cappabianca
Point of View in “The Odyssey”
Instructions: Read the excerpt from “The Odyssey” by Homer. As you read,
highlight or underline at least 10 key words in the text that signal the author’s point
of view. After finding the words identify what the authors point of view is in the
text

Excerpt from Book XII

 "Next we began to sail up the narrow strait lamenting. For on the one hand lay Scylla, and on
the other mighty Charybdis in terrible wise sucked down the salt sea water. As often as she
belched it forth, like a cauldron on a great fire she would seethe up through all her troubled
depths, and overhead the spray fell on the tops of either cliff. But oft as she gulped down the salt
sea water, within she was all plain to see through her troubled deeps, and the rock around roared
horribly and beneath the earth was manifest swart with sand, and pale fear gat hold on my men.
Toward her, then, we looked fearing destruction; but Scylla meanwhile caught from out my
hollow ship six of my company, the hardiest of their hands and the chief in might. And looking
into the swift ship to find my men, even then I marked their feet and hands as they were lifted on
high, and they cried aloud in their agony, and called me by my name for that last time of all.
Even as when a fisher on some head-land lets down with a long rod his baits for a snare to the
little fishes below, casting into the deep the horn of an ox of the homestead, and as he catches
each flings it writhing ashore, so writhing were they borne upward to the cliff. And there she
devoured them shrieking in her gates, stretching forth their hands to me in the dread death-
struggle. And the most pitiful thing was this that mine eyes have seen of all my travail in
searching out the paths of the sea."

Key Words
1) we 6) me
2) she 7) he
3) her 8) I
4) my 9) they
5)their 10) mine What is the point of view? 1st person
Criteria for Success
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● There are at least 10 key words highlighted or underlined in the text
● The authors point of view is identified
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● There are at least 10 key words highlighted or underlined
● But the point of view is not identified
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● There are less than 10 key words highlighted or underlined
● The point of view is not identified