Point of View Interacts with Story

1. What is point of view?

• The position from which a narrator tells a story.

• The moral of a story.

• The genre to which a story belongs.

• The personality of the main character in a story.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

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Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?

I'm so busy watching the dog I don't even notice it's started to rain. Don't bother me. Don't bother the dog, neither. I'm looking for the place I first saw him. Does he live here? I wonder.

From Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Shiloh. Copyright 2000 by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

• First person

• Second person

• Third person, objective

• Third person, limited

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If Tim wrote a story describing his interactions with Cassie and Rita, what point of view would he most likely use?

• Second person

• Third person omniscient

• First person

• Third person limited

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Which point of view would you most likely find in a newspaper article about an artist or athlete?

• First person

• Third person omniscient

• Second person

• Third person limited

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CCSS.RL.1.6

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What point of view would you most likely find in a novel that explores the deepest thoughts and feelings of a number of characters?

• First person

• Third person omniscient

• Second person

• Third person limited

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

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6. What effect might a second-person point of view have on a story?

• It would allow the reader to know everything about all the characters

• It would allow the reader to get to know the narrator's thoughts and feelings

• It would give the reader a broad picture about what's going on

• It would place the reader directly into the story

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

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If you described your school principal as "omniscient," what would you probably mean?

• That she can read her students' minds.

• That she sees and knows everything that goes on at school.

• That she is able to relate to students on a personal level

• That she is cruel and mean.

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8. "As you take the quiz, you feel your confidence growing, and a smile creeps across your face." What type of narration is this?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

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CCSS.RL.1.6

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. "I couldn't wait to meet my friend Rita, so I rode my bicycle to her house as fast as I could." What type of narration is this?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

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CCSS.RL.1.6

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Which of the following statements is true?

• Switching points of view can be confusing

• An omniscient narrator is usually a character in the story

• Most novels and short stories are written in the second person

• Most newspaper articles are written in the first person

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