Point Of View

Uses a narrator who describes their own thoughts, feelings, and impressions and doesn't know what other characters are thinking and feeling.

• third person omniscient

• second person

• third person limited

• first person

Told by one of the characters and uses pronouns "I" or "me".

• third person omniscient

• second person

• third person limited

• first person

Uses a narrator that is not in the story but only tells the thoughts and feelings of one character.

• third person limited

• second person

• third person omniscient

• first person

Uses a narrator who is not a character in the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

• third person omniscient

• second person

• first person

• third person limited

What point of view is this from?

"Jimmy went to the Planter's Hotel, registered as Ralph D. Spencer, and engaged a room. He leaned on the desk and declared his platform to the clerk...The clerk was impressed by the clothes and manner of Jimmy. He, himself, was something of a pattern of fashion to the thinly gilded youth of Elmore, but he now perceived his shortcomings. While trying to figure out Jimmy's manner to tying his four-in-hand he cordially gave information."

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• first person

• second person

What point of view is this from?

The dew on the grass made my running shoes damp. It didn't bother me. The sound of my feet hitting the street formed a rhythm, a steady pattern of light thumps. I timed my breathing with the rhythm. These sounds filled my head. I thought of nothing other than the next step and keeping my tempo. I soared over the sidewalks like concrete clouds.

• second person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• first person

What point of view is this from?

"Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors. But he was thrown down and choked repeatedly, 'til they succeeded in filing the heavy brass collar from his neck. Then the rope was removed, and he was flung into a cage-like crate.

There he lay for the remainder of the weary night, nursing his wrath and wounded pride. he could not understand what it all meant. What did they want with him, these strange men? Why were they keeping him pent up in this narrow crate? He did not know why, but he felt oppressed..."

• third person omniscient

• first person

• third person limited

• second person

What is first person point of view?

• The narrator is a character in the story who describes their own thoughts and feelings and doesn't know what other characters are thinking and feeling.

• The narrator is not a character in the story and only tells the thoughts and feeling of one character.

• The narrator is not a character in the story and is all-knowing, revealing the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

What is third person limited point of view?

• The narrator is a character in the story who describes their own thoughts and feelings and doesn't know what other characters are thinking and feeling.

• The narrator is not a character in the story and only tells the thoughts and feeling of one character.

• The narrator is not a character in the story and is all-knowing, revealing the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.

What is third person omniscient point of view?

• The narrator is a character in the story who describes their own thoughts and feelings and doesn't know what other characters are thinking and feeling.

• The narrator is not a character in the story and only tells the thoughts and feeling of one character.

• The narrator is not a character in the story and is all-knowing, revealing the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.