Point of View and Perspective

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 in 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
• First Person
• Third Person Objective
• 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 Omniscient
• Third Person Objective
• Third Person Limited
• Second Person

In what point of view does the narrator reveal only the central character’s emotions?

• Second Person
• Third Person Omniscient
• Third Person Limited
• 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
• First Person
• Third Person Objective
• Third Person Omniscient

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

• Third Person Limited
• First Person
• Second person
• Third Person Omniscient

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

• First Person
• Second Person
• Third Person Omniscient
• Third Person Limited

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

• Third Person Limited
• Second Person
• Third person objective
• First Person

Identify the point of view of the excerpt 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 the coil of wire. The memories swirl as I try to sort out what is true and what is false.

• Second Person
• Third Person Omniscient
• First person
• Third Person Limited