Point of View in Literature

Why can't a reader truly trust a 1st person narration?

• Because the narration isn't objective meaning there's room for the narrator to include their opinions about what's happening.

• Because the narration is objective and factual so it can be trusted.

• Because the narrator is a liar who cannot be trusted as it is coming from the author's perspective.

If a story is told in first-person point of view, the narrator

• is NOT a character in the story

• is a character in the story

In third-person point of view, the narrator can tell 

• what one or more characters are thinking and feeling

• only what she or he is thinking and feeling

• what none of the characters are thinking or feeling

Point of view is

• the narrator's choice of author

• the author's choice of narrator

• an optical illusion

• always changing within a story

The narrator tells a narrative without describing any character's thoughts, feelings, or opinions.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of more than one character in the story.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

Which sentence is written in second person point of view?

• Erin did not want to go to the grocery store.

• You did not want to go to the grocery store.

• Mariah did not want to go to the grocery store.

• I did not want to go to the grocery store.

I didn't like creeping down the dark alley. From which point of view is this sentence written?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person, omniscient

• Third person, objective

from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Effie Trinket trots to the podium and gives her signature, “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!” But suddenly I am thinking of Gale and how the odds are not in his favor.

• third-person limited

• third-person omniscient

• first-person

• third-person objective

John's neighbor is angry because John plays loud music every day. John is frustrated at his neighbor because his neighbor complains too much. They talked about it and came to a compromise--John will still play his loud music every day, but will only play for 1 hour instead of 2.

• third-person omniscient

• third-person limited

• third-person objective

• first-person