Character Perspective

_____________________ is how the character sees the world.

• Perspective

• Motivation

• Actions

• Setting

Answer explanation

Every character in a story has a perspective about the issues and events going on in the story, including the narrator and the society.

Using multiple perspectives in your writing is important because it helps you become a more complex writer.

• true

• false

Answer explanation

Provide a perspective very different than your main character to create conflict. For example, show the perspective of society toward a controversial issue in the life of your main character.

Select all that apply: In order to find the character's perspective I think about

• what the character knows

• what the character does

• what the character says

• what the character feels

What is one way that you can make perspective work in your creative writing?

• Make sure to have a beginning, middle, and end.

• Use different perspectives to build characters.

• Think about what people would say about your writing.

Answer explanation

Use different perspectives of characters to contrast them against each other and bring out certain traits each one has. For example, contrast an outgoing character with one who is more private and introverted by having the gregarious person trying to talk the other one into attending a dance. "I'd rather go home and watch a movie," the introverted character might say.

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

• Pronouns like I, my, and him are used.

• The author is addressing the reader.

• The narrator is not in the story.

• Pronouns like I, my, and we are used.

A type of narrative point of view where the author uses pronouns like ''your" and "you."

• Second Person POV

• Third Person POV

• First Person POV

Which point of view do you see in these signal words? he, she, they, them, their, theirs, his, hers, her, its, characters' names

• First person
• Second person
• Third person

Which point of view is the following:
"There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair."
_{from Divergent by Veronica Roth}

• second
• first
• third person limited
• third person objective

What 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
• Third person omniscient
• Third person objective

What point of view is the following: It's Monday morning. You drag yourself out of bed and get dressed from head to toe. You hear commotion downstairs when your Mother brushes your little sister's hair with a comb. You take one last, long look around your bedroom where you spent the glorious weekend playing video games, you pick up your bookbag, grab your novel, so your English teacher won't gripe at you, and you head out the door. "See you, Mom! I'm meeting Anthony at his bus stop!" you scream as you bolt down the stairs toward the front door of your apartment. You hear your Mom's muffled protest after you swing shut the door. You're already halfway down the road before you hear her again. "Danny! You forgot your earbuds and your permission slip to stay after school for practice!" You know she's got you. You have to turn around and walk back home. By the time you reach the front door, your bus pulls up to your driveway. Your Mom reaches out to kiss your forehead. You barely escape being kissed by your Mom in front of all the guys on the bus. "Bye, Mom, I love you," you whisper as you turn and run toward the door of the bus.

• first person
• third person limited
• second person
• third person objective