Point of View

I didn't like creeping down the dark alley. From which point of view is this sentence written?

• first person

• second person

• third person

The library was full of students studying for their final exams. Robert and Rome were studying for math. William and Tiana were studying for science.

• first person

• second person

• third person

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

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

• Pronouns like she, her, and they are used.

• The narrator is not in the story.

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

A type of narrative perspective in which the  author uses pronouns like ''he" and "they."

• 1st person pov

• 2nd person pov

• 3rd person pov

I ran up a steep hill. I was very hot and exhausted. It was a long race, but I was in the lead. I knew if I could keep my pace I would be able to win the race.

• 1st person pov

• 2nd person pov

• 3rd person pov

She liked ice cream, but he liked cake. So they bought both.

• 1st person pov

• 2nd person pov

• 3rd person pov

Identify the narrator's point of view.

To his astonishment, Charlie found himself standing next to his bicycle, back where he had entered the swamp. That was bizarre and upsetting, but not as bad as the realization that he was still holding the skull. He thought he had dropped it before he raced out the door. He certainly hadn't intended to steal the thing. He didn't even really want it!

• first person

• second person

• third person

Identify the narrator's point of view.

We lived on the main residential street in town. Atticus, Jem, and I, plus Calpurnia our cook. Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment... Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence

• second person

• first person

• third person