POV Basics

Second person point of view should be avoided in most formal/academic (school) writing because it

can be considered informal.

• True

• False

Which word is a part of all 2nd person POV pronouns?

• you

• me

How are Authors Point of View and Authors Purpose linked?

• The point of view is how the author feels and purpose is what the author does for the reader

• They do be the same thing

• Pov is how the author sees it and purpose is how they help us understand their view

• purpose is how the author feels and pov is what they do for the reader

Authors Point of view is...

• First person, Second person, Third person

• How the author sees the characters and situations

• Ariana Grande... it IS her

• What the author is doing for the reader

Which sentence is written in second person point of view?

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

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

• You 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

Which sentence is written in third person point of view?

• I brought my mother breakfast this morning.

• You always wear your seatbelt.

• We didn't mean to hurt Jorge's feelings!

• Cynthia and her brother walked home from school this afternoon.

The narrator is the ________.

• person telling the story

• main character in the story

• enemy of the main character in the story

• person listening to the story

A ________ narrator can see and describe every character's thoughts.

• first person

• second person

• third person, limited

• third person, omniscient

In which point of view does the narrator describe "you" and "your" actions?

• first person

• second person

• third person, limited

• third person, omniscient