Point of View

Alice has written a story about a young man named Andrew who doesn’t always agree with established rules. One day, Andrew, Abigail, and Harper decide to challenge the school's dress code. Ava, who is a stickler for rules, tries to convince them otherwise. Choose the correct type of conflict to complete the sentence. The protagonist, Andrew, always gets into trouble at school and at his job. This type of conflict is called character versus______

• society

• character

• self

• nature

Match the following

• the mood in stories that authors create through descriptions of characters and settings

• atmosphere

• a literary technique used to create a particular effect in a text

• setting

• the central idea in a story that is revealedby the setting and the actions of characters

• literary device

• the time and place in which a story happens

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

David, Nora, and Abigail are reading Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre together. They come across an excerpt and want to identify the first-person point of view. Can you help them find the words that show it?

• I, me, my

• Both

• She, her

• Miss Eyre, Eliza

During a class discussion, Ava, Grace, and Oliver are trying to identify the point of view used in a passage. Based on the underlined words, which point of view do you think they concluded is used in this passage?

• second-person point of view

• first-person point of view

• third-person omniscient point of view

• third-person limited point of view

Priya and Mia are discussing a passage they just read. They notice that the passage uses the ​ (a)   point of view. David joins the conversation and points out that this point of view is shown through the use of ​ (b)   pronouns and the fact that the narrator describes the thoughts of only one character.

• third-person limited

• third-person

• first-person

• third-person omniscient

Lily, Ava, and Abigail are reading the following excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” This short story is about a family that includes an old woman, her son, Bailey, and the son’s wife and children. The girls are curious about the point of view of the excerpt. Can you help them figure it out?

• third-person limited

• third-person omniscient

• first-person

• second-person

Imagine you're reading a thrilling novel where the author magically reveals the thoughts and feelings of Isla, Avery, and Kai. What point of view is the author using?

• more than one character

• one character

Imagine you're reading a book where only Arjun's thoughts and feelings are revealed by the author. This style of narration is known as...

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

• First person

• Second person

Imagine Harper is writing a story where Michael is the main character. If Harper is narrating the story from a third person point of view, who is she talking about?

• someone else

• herself

• Ava

• nobody

Imagine Ethan is writing a 'how to do' book. In which point-of-view is Ethan likely writing if he is giving instructions directly to Aiden and Nora?

• Second person

• First person

• Third person

• Fourth person