Literacy

Literacy (Jacobson)

3rd Hour

Point of View Review

• First Person: told from the viewpoint of one of the characters.

• 2nd person: Rarely used. The narrator speaks directly to the reader.

• 3rd Person limited: the narrator is an outside observer who focuses on thoughts and feelings of only one character.

• 3rd Person Objective: The narrator reports the facts of a narrator as seemingly neutral and outside observer.

• 3rd Person Omniscient: The narrator can tell us all of the character's thoughts and feelings.

Point of View Questions

Multiple Choice

My clothing's damp, but I don't know whether the pond water, dew, rain, or sweat is the cause. For a long time, all I can do is take tiny sips from my bottle and watch a beetle crawl up the side of a honeysuckle bush. (Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins) What is the point of view?

• First Person

• Third person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

Harry had taken up his place at wizard school, where he and his scar were famous....but now the school now the school year was over and he was back with the Dursley's for the summer, back to being treated like a dog that had rolled in something smelly. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling) What point of view is this?

• Third person omniscient

• Third person Limited

• 1st Person

Multiple Choice

He pulled out her rolling pin like she did so many times before. What point of view is this?

• 2nd person

• 3rd person obejective

• 1st person

Multiple Choice

Casey couldn't tell if her friend was lying.

• 3rd person limited

• 2nd person

• 1st person

Multiple Choice

Which point of view uses pronouns like you and your?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3 person omniscient