Point of View

What is point of view?

• The vantage point of position from which the story is told.

• When the narrator is in the story.

• When the narrator is not in the story.

• A story with no perspective.

In what point of view does a character within the story retell his or her experiences or impressions from their own perspective?

• Second person

• Third person objectve

• First person

• Third person limited

In what point of view is the story written from the perspective of "you"?

• Third person omniscient

• First person

• Third person limited

• Second person

In what point of view does the narrator remain a detailed observer, telling only the stories action and dialogue?

• Third person objective

• Third person omniscient

• Third person limited

• Second person

In what point of view does the narrator reveal only the central characters emotions?

• Second person

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

• First person

In what point of view does the narrator have unlimited knowledge and can describe every character's thoughts and interpret their behaviors?

• Second person

• Third person objective

• First person

• Third person omniscient

Directions and instructions are usually narrated from which point of view?

• Third person limited

• Second person

• First person

• Third person omniscient

In what point of view does the narrator use pronouns such as 'I', and 'me'.

• First person

• Third person omniscient

• Second person

• Third person limited

Identify the point of view: Mark got in to the car and turned on the engine as his cell phone rang. "I'm on my way right now," he said to Mary.

• Third person limited

• Third person objective

• Second person

• First person

Identify the point of view of the expert from The Hunger Games: A pain stabs my left temple and I press my hand against it. Right on the spot where Johanna Mason hit me with coil wire. The memories swirl as I try to sort out what is true and what is false.

• Second person

• First person

• Third person omniscient

• Third person limited