Point of View

The next morning Mr. Sir marched the boys to another section of the lake, and each boy dug his own hole, five feet deep and five feet wide. Stanley was glad to be away from the big hole. At least now he knew just how much he had to dig for the day. And it was a relief not to have other shovels swinging past his face, or the Warden hanging around (80).

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

What POV uses words like I?

• Third Person

• Fourth Person

• First Person

• Second Person

The farm next to ours is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Gregg. The Greggs have two children, both of them boys. Their names are Philip and William. Sometimes I go over to their farm to play with them. I am a girl and I am eight years old. Philip is also eight years old. Last week something very funny happened. I am going to tell you about it as best as I can (1).

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

Read this example: What type of point of view is seen?
“Rosalie could not figure out who tricked her. Although she had a feeling it was Gia."

• 1st person
• 2nd person
• 3rd person

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. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature (6).

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

What is a simile?

• A comparison

• A comparison not using like or as

• A animal

• A comparison using like or as

What is a narrator?

• The person telling the story

• A character in a story

• A animal in a story

Third person POV uses words like I?

• True

• False