POV Lessons

What is point of view?

​The perspective that a story is told from.

We can identify the narrator of a story by looking for pronouns.

Multiple Choice

What is point of view?

• Who a character is

• The perspective a story is told from

• When the narrator has an opinion

Multiple Choice

How do you identify the point of view in a story?

• Decide who the m

• Ask somebody smart

• Look at the pronouns the speaker uses

What is shift in point of view?

When the speaker changes during the story.

Sometimes the speaker changes between sections (or selections)

Multiple Choice

When the narrator or speaker changes in a story, we call this a shift in the point of view.

• True

• False

Why do author's change POV?

Some reasons might be...

To offer a different experience

To reveal information that the first narrator cannot

To give a different side of the same story

For creative or style purposes

Multiple Select

Why might an author change the speaker or narrator?

To offer a different experience

To reveal information that the first narrator cannot

To give a different side of the same story

For creative or style purposes

• To provide additional information

• For style

• To offer up another side of the story

• To give the reader a different experience

The different points of view

First person

Second Person

Third person

Third person-omniscient

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not a type of point of view?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

• Fourth person

How to determine the pov?

The pronouns tell you.

First person uses I, me, my, mine, we, us, our, ours

Second Person uses you, yours

Third person and third person-omniscient uses he, she, it, they, them, their

Multiple Select

Choose the correct second person pronouns.

• we

• you

• yours

• I

Multiple Select

Choose the correct first-person pronouns.

• me

• my

• ours

• us

Multiple Choice

Which is not a third person or third person-omniscient pronoun?

• he/she

• they/them

• it

• ours