Perspective or Point of View

How do you know which specific point of view the previous text (Ozma of Oz) is written in?

• The narrator uses the pronouns "she" as well as the character's names.

• The narrator focuses on the actions of one character.

• The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of multiple characters as well as their actions.

• The narrator focuses on the thoughts and feelings of one character.

How do you know that something is written in first person point of view?

• Pronouns like I, my, and him are used.

• The author is addressing the reader.

• The narrator is not in the story.

• Pronouns like I, my, and we are used.

A type of narrative point of view where the author uses pronouns like ''your" and "you."

• Second Person POV

• First Person POV

• Third Person POV

Which point of view do you see these signal words?

• First

• Second

• Third

“What would you do if you could fly?" Mrs. V asks as she glances from the bird to me. "Is that on the quiz?" I ask, grinning as I type. "I think we've studied just about everything else." Mrs. V chuckles. "I'd be scared to let go," I type. "Afraid you'd fall?" she asks. "No. Afraid it would feel so good, I'd just fly away.” ― Sharon M. Draper, Out of My Mind

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

“He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler.” — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

“Ozma took the arm of her hostess, but Dorothy lagged behind. When at last she rejoined Glinda and Ozma in the hall, she found them talking earnestly about the condition of the people, and how to make them more happy and contented– although they were already the happiest and most contented folks in all the world. This interested Ozma, of course, but it didn’t interest Dorothy very much, so the little girl ran over to the big table on which was lying open Glinda’s Great Book of Records.” Ozma of Oz by Frank L. Baum

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Which point of view do you see these signal words?
I, me, my, mine, we, us

• First person

• Second person

• Third person

Third person omniscient point of view is when the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of ______ characters.

• all

• one

• no

• more than three

What POV is this passage?
As I stepped onto the shiny porch of my new house, I thought to myself,"This is gonna be a good day."

• Second Person

• First Person

• Third Person