Point of View Lesson Review

How can you determine the point of view of a story?

• By asking where and when the story takes place

• By asking who is telling the story

• By finding where the story was written

• By determining the lesson or moral of the story

How can you change this first person sentence to third person?

• The sentence can stay the same as it is written.

• "I" can be replaced with "you."

• "I" can be replaced with "we."

• "I" can be replaced with "he" or "she."

True or false: Never use dialogue to determine a story's point of view.

• true

• false

What is point of view?

• The main idea of a story

• Who is telling the story / What the character or narrator telling the story can see

• A person's opinion/argument

• The life lesson/moral of a story

What should you do to determine the P.O.V. of a story? Choose 2 answers.

• Look for who is telling the story

  • (Whose thoughts AND feelings do you see/hear the most?)

• Pay attention to the pronouns used (I, you, he/she)

• Pay attention to actions AND dialogue (conversations)

What P.O.V. is the following sentence:

"My glasses! I can't see without my glasses!"

• 1st Person

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person

Will you please take your seats? Thank you. I would like you to turn to page 64 in the textbook and begin reading the page to yourself. When you are done, answer the question on page 65.

• 1st Person

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person

What P.O.V. is the following sentence:

Julia woke up and looked at her alarm clock. She smiled and sat up in bed. I woke up right on time she thought to herself. She felt excited since it would be her first time visiting Disneyland.

• 3rd Person-Objective

  (no thoughts & feelings)

• 3rd Person-Limited

  (one person's thoughts & feelings)

• 3rd Person-Omniscient

  (everyone's thoughts & feelings)

What is a narrator?

• the author

• the character

• the reader

• the person/character telling the story

Match the following points of view with the correct pronouns.

• Uses pronouns “you”

• 2nd Person P.O.V.

• Uses pronouns “I, myself, we”

• 3rd Person P.O.V.

• Uses pronouns “he, she, they"

• 1st Person P.O.V.