Changing Point of View

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 Billy's feelings!

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

Change this passage from the first to the third person by changing the pronouns (you can use random name). All week long, I was excited about the weekend. My mother and I were taking a road trip to the beach. We had been planning it for months. She wanted to surprise me at first, but I figured it out.

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In THIRD PERSON POV, the narrator may know everyone's thoughts.

• True

• False

Point of View

• the characters in the story

• the reader's perspective or opinion

• what the story is about

• perspective from which the story is told

Which point of view is used in this sentence?

"As I ran up the hill, I realized that it was about to rain."

• 1st Person Point of View

• 3rd Person Point of View

Which point of view is used in this sentence?"Without being scared, Scott jumped off the diving board and swam to the side."

• 1st Person Point of View

• 3rd Person Point of View

First Person Point of View is...

• the author's inner thoughts

• the character's inner thoughts

• when the story is being told by an outside observer who is not in the story

• when a character is the narrator who tells the story

Third Person Point Of View is...

• when a character is the narrator who tells the story

• when the story is being told by an outside observer who is not in the story

• the author's inner thoughts

• the character's inner thoughts

Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using pronouns like I and we

• First Person POV

• Second Person POV

• Third Person POV

• Third Person Omniscient

The narrator casts the reader as a character in the story and uses the pronouns you and your

• First Person POV

• Second Person POV

• Third Person POV

• Third Person Limited POV