10th Grade Point of View

10th Grade Point of View

Multiple Choice

the narrator is the

• person telling the story
• the simile
• person who wrote the story
• a flat character

Open Ended

What did we discuss during the last class about 1st Person Point of View?

Write them down.

Multiple Choice

When a story is written in 1st person point of view, the reader knows...

• only the thoughts and feelings shared by the narrator

• all thoughts and feelings of the person telling the story which is also in the story

• thoughts and feelings of everyone in the story

• no one's thoughts and feelings

Open Ended

What did we discuss during the last class about 2nd Person Point of View?

Write them down.

Multiple Choice

What point of view uses the word

your?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

Open Ended

What did we discuss during the last class about 3rd Person Point of View?

Write them down.

Multiple Choice

Third person point of view is when the narrator is talking about

• someone else

• themselves

• the speaker

• nobody

Multiple Choice

If a story is told in third-person point of view, the narrator

• is NOT a character in the story
• is a character in the story

Multiple Choice

Which point of view is the most reliable?

• THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT

• FIRST PERSON

• THIRD PERSON LIMITED

• THIRD PERSON OBJECTIVE

Multiple Choice

Which point of view is the least reliable?

• THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT

• FIRST PERSON

• THIRD PERSON LIMITED

• THIRD PERSON OBJECTIVE

Multiple Choice

The birds were chirping and the sun was shining. Kevin and Juno were sitting on a park bench together. Neither of them was smiling. After a long period of silence, Kevin said, "This isn't going to work. I mean, you're a dog person and I'm a cat person." Juno nodded. A tear rolled down her face. Kevin went on, "If we got married and bought a house, what kind of pet would we get? Some kind of cat-dog? Somebody's going to be unhappy." Juno began sobbing and said, "Ok, let's just end it now. Have fun with your slobbery dogs." She jumped off the bench and ran into the woods.

• first person

• second person

• third person objective

• third person limited

Multiple Choice

She liked ice cream, but he liked cake. So they bought both.

• 3rd person OMNISCIENT

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

• 1st person

Multiple Choice

“Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you make yourself, all the time.”

― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

I reached down to pick up the shards of glass around Ester's bare feet. She didn't move, but her tension was like the skin on the bright, tiny beads of blood. I curse, and, like an idiot, grabbed at a piece of glass. It pierced my thumb like a knife.

• 1st Person

• 3rd Person Limited

• 3rd Person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

John looked nervously at Patty as she reached into the cage without hesitation. She seemed to not to be scared of snakes in the slightest.

• 1st Person

• 3rd Person Limited

• 3rd Person Omniscient

• 3rd Person Objective

Multiple Choice

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar.

Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank. He thought it would be fun to tie the pigtails together, or better yet, tie them to her chair. But most of all, he just wanted to pull one.

• First-person

• Second-person

• Third-Objective

• Third-Limited