Unit 4
Point of View and Voice

Learning Objectives

When you have completed Unit 4, you should be able to

1. identify the ways in which structure helps to establish tone or narrative voice.
2. employ vivid and effective diction in your writing to establish a distinctive narrative voice or a story’s tone.
3. demonstrate the subtleties of tense and perspective (e.g. first, second or third person point-of-view) when establishing a narrative voice or a story’s tone.