Point of View

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.

• first-person

• third-person limited omniscient

• third-person omniscient

• third-person objective

Third person omniscient point of view is when the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of ______ the characters.

• all of

• one of

• none

• two of

What is special about third person limited?

• The thoughts of most characters are revealed
• The thoughts of all characters are revealed
• The thoughts of one character is not revealed
• The thoughts of one character is revealed

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which point of view is the following:

Cathy leaned into her computer screen with big eyes. She couldn't believe it- she had finally gotten a 100 on her math test! She knew her parents would be proud of her.

• first-person

• third-person limited omniscient

• third-person omniscient

• third-person objective

How can you know that something is written in first person point of view?

• It uses pronouns like you and yours. -

• The author knows unlimited information about every character.

• the narrator is not in the story

• pronouns like I, me, my and we are used

The narrator has unlimited knowledge and can describe every character's thoughts and interpret their behaviors.

• second-person

• third-person objective

• third-person omniscient

• first-person

"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." Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Louis Sachar

• first-person

• second-person

• third-person limited omniscient

• third-person omniscient

Which type of point of view is the following:

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

― Jacqueline Woodson, Peace, Locomotion

• first-person

• second-person

• third-person limited omniscient

• third-person omniscient

“It all began when Ms. Frizzle showed our class a film strip about the human body. We knew trouble was about to start, because we knew Ms. Frizzle was the strangest teacher in the school.”The Magic School Bus: Inside the Human Body, Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen

• first-person

• second-person

• third-person limited omniscient

• third-person omniscient

What is second-person point of view?

• the author speaks to a character in the story

• the author speaks directly to the reader

• the narrator is a character in the story

• the second character introduced is the narrator