Narrative Point of View Quiz

What is the perspective from which a story is told?

• plot

• point of view

• first person

• third person

What are the two types of narrative point of view? (Select TWO answers)

• position

• fourth person

• inside

• standpoint

Where is an internal narrator?

• a narrator that is outside of the story

• a narrator that is inside the story

What is an external narrator?

• a narrator that is outside of the story

• a narrator that is inside the story

Which type of narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of ALL of the characters in the story?

• 1st person narrator

• 3rd person limited narrator

• 3rd person omniscient narrator

• 3rd person objective narrator

Which type of narrator is unbiased and only tells what is seen and heard without any thoughts and feelings?

• 1st person narrator

• 3rd person limited narrator

• 3rd person omniscient narrator

• 3rd person objective narrator

Which kind of narrator is a character in the story, thus they can reveal only their own thoughts and feelings, but also the actions and words of other characters?

• 1st person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person objective

Which kind of narrator is outside of the story, but tells the story through the eyes of one character, thus, they know the thoughts and feelings of only one character?

• 1st person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person objective

What does "omniscient" mean?

• unbiased

• all knowing

• knowing little

• fair

What does objective mean?

• unbiased

• all knowing

• knowing little

• outside