Point of View vs. Perspective

Multiple Choice

Q. Point of view can be defined as...

• who tells the story

• how the story is told

• why the story is told

• when the story is told

Multiple Choice

_____________________ is how the character sees the world.

• character perspective

• character motivation

• actions

• setting

Multiple Select

Select all that apply: In order to find the character's perspective I think about

• what the character eats

• what the character knows

• what the character does

• what the character says

• what the character feels

Multiple Choice

As I grazed in the field, I realized there were no other animals around. I had a weird feeling that something was wrong. The other animals that are usually making noises are all silent. The rustling from my hooves is the only sound. I see a shadow up in a tree. I feel afraid and uneasy. I think it is unsafe here so I will run away.

From what/whose perspective is the passage written?

• A hunter

• An animal looking for friends

• An animal being hunted

Multiple Choice

What is perspective?

• a particular attitude (opinion) about something.

• an important topic or problem for debate or discussion.

• searching for useful information

• evaluating different global problems

Multiple Choice

Great rosebushes of red bloomed on Victor’s cheeks. A river of nervous sweat ran down his palms. He felt awful. Teresa sat a few desks away, no doubt thinking he was a fool. Without looking at Mr. Bueller, Victor mumbled, ‘Frenchie oh wewe gee in September.”...He stared at the board and wished he had taken Spanish, not French. Better yet, he wished he could start his life over. He had never been so embarrassed. He bit his thumb until he tore off a sliver of skin.

What is Victor's perspective?

• He thinks French is a confusing language.

• He thinks that Teresa will make fun of him after class.

• He thinks he has embarrassed himself in front of Teresa and ruined his chances with her.

Multiple Choice

When we arrived at the park, I let Victoria off her lead. Immediately some scruffy mongrel appeared and started bothering her. I shooed it off, but the horrible thing chased her all over the park.

• She thinks the park is unsafe

• She thinks Victoria is a disobedient dog.

• She is thinks the other animals in the park are annoying and awful.

Multiple Choice

Mrs. Travers was worried that her students were not understanding what she was teaching in class. She decided she would work late after school every single night trying to create the best lessons for her students. She even started coming in early in the mornings as well. Because of this, she started to see a huge increase in her student's grades, and eventually, this led to her earning a "Teacher of the Year" award!

What experience did Mrs. Travers have that helped her develop throughout the story?

• She tried nothing and her students ended up learning better because of it.

• She found that if she worked really hard before and after school to make better lesson plans, her student's performance would improve.

• She asked other teachers to help her figure out why her students weren't learning.

• She curled up into a ball and cried until the school year was over.

Multiple Choice

Q. Perspective can be defined as...

• how the story is told

• why the story is told

• who tells the story

• where the story is told

Multiple Choice

Q. How do you know that something is written in the 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.

Multiple Choice

Q. 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

Multiple Choice

Q. Which point of view do you see these signal words?

he, she, they, them, (character's names)

• First

• Second

• Third

Multiple Choice

Q. Which point of view is the narrator "all-knowing" on the thoughts and feelings of more than two characters?

• First person

• Third person limited

• Third person objective

• Third person omniscient

Multiple Choice

Q. Which point of view is when the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE character?

• Second person

• Third person objective

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

Multiple Choice

Q. Third person limited differs from third person omniscient:

• because the point of view is fixed or limited to a particular POV

• because the reader can infer what other people feel and think only from what the viewpoint character observes

• A and B

Multiple Choice

Q. Which of the following is NOT considered when determining a text's POV?

• character feelings

• words used: I, you, he/she/them, etc.

• dialogue between characters

• perspective

Multiple Choice

Q. “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

Multiple Choice

Q. “Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh. ”

― Jacqueline Woodson, Peace, Locomotion

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

Q. “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 miserable.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Multiple Choice

Q. “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