Point of View/Narration Self Assessment

The narrator of a story is

• the person who wrote the story

• the person who reads the story

• the person who tells the story

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What kind of narrator is telling this story?

I knew then I had to have a house. A real house. One I could point to. But this isn't it. The house on Mango Street isn't it. (from The House on Mango Street)

• 1st person

• 3rd person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What kind of narrator is telling this story?

Harry didn't much like Peeves, but couldn't help feeling grateful for his timing. Hopefully, whatever Peeves had done (and it sounded as though he'd wrecked something very big this time) would distract Filch from Harry. (From Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)

• 1st person

• 3rd person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What kind of narrator is telling this story?

He thought again of Katherine. It must be nine, ten -- nearly eleven years since they had parted. It was curious how seldom he thought of her. For days at at time he was capable of forgetting that he had ever been married. (From 1984)

• 1st person

• 3rd person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What kind of narrator is telling this story?

When I tell Amá that I need privacy, she laughts and tells me I've become too Americanized. "Privacy! I never had any privacy when I was a girl. You kids think you can do whatever you want," she says. (From I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter)

• 1st person

• 3rd person

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6