Authors POV and Perspective Pretest

Point of View

• Which character we are getting the story from/what their role is in the story.

• The emotion the author wants us to feel as readers.

• How a character experiences events of the story.

• The author’s attitude towards a subject.

Third Person Omniscient

• Told from the main character narrator’s point of view.

• Told from a "You" or "Your" point of view

• A story that is narrated by an outside viewer, but follows mainly the main character’s thoughts and feelings.

• A story told by a narrator about multiple characters, and the reader knows the thoughts and feelings of many/all of the characters.

First Person

• Told from the main character narrator’s point of view.

• Told from a "You" or "Your" point of view

• A story that is narrated by an outside viewer, but follows mainly the main character’s thoughts and feelings.

• A story told by a narrator about multiple characters, and the reader knows the thoughts and feelings of many/all of the characters.

Third Person Limited

• Told from the main character narrator’s point of view.

• Told from a "You" or "Your" point of view

• A story that is narrated by an outside viewer, but follows mainly the main character’s thoughts and feelings.

• A story told by a narrator about multiple characters, and the reader knows the thoughts and feelings of many/all of the characters.

The person who tells the story.

• Author

• Perspective

• Narrator

• Omniscient

When he was 12 years old, Tom loved nothing better than to build models. Models of planes or ships were the most challenging to build. One summer, the young boy spent every evening working on his model of the Star Ship Enterprise, from the original Star Trek TV series. Instead of playing with his friends, Tom sat at his desk, carefully gluing the tiny plastic pieces in place. When the model was done and mounted on a platform, that starship was perfect. The model even had engine lights that worked! Tom felt so proud. To him, there was nothing like building something with his own two hands. This story is told from which point of view?

• The story shifts from first to third person

• Third person point of view

• The story shifts from third to first person

• First person point of view

When he was 12 years old, Tom loved nothing better than to build models. Models of planes or ships were the most challenging to build. One summer, the young boy spent every evening working on his model of the Star Ship Enterprise, from the original Star Trek TV series. Instead of playing with his friends, Tom sat at his desk, carefully gluing the tiny plastic pieces in place. When the model was done and mounted on a platform, that starship was perfect. The model even had engine lights that worked! Tom felt so proud. To him, there was nothing like building something with his own two hands. Which of these sentences from the passage helps the reader identify the point of view?

• To him, there was nothing like building something with his own two hands.

• When the model was done and mounted on a platform, that starship was perfect.

• Models of planes or ships were the most challenging to build

• The model even had engine lights that worked!

Which word in the sentence below indicates the first person point of view?

While I struggled to get her inside, she accidentally bumped her head on the doorframe of the stable.

• she

• her

• I

• on

3rd person limited POV is when:

• a writer speaks directly to the reader by using "you/your"

• readers know all thoughts and feelings about character

• when a story is told through the author's voice, through one characters mind

• when a character directly narrates a story

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

• Second Person POV

• Third Person POV

• First Person POV