Point of View

The narrator is the _____.

• person telling the story
• main character in the story 
• enemy of the main character in the story
• person listening to the story 

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

Which sentence is written in second person point of view?

• Erin did not want to go to the grocery store. 
• You did not want to go to the grocery store.
• Mariah did not want to go to the grocery store. 
• I did not want to go to the grocery store.

Tags

CCSS.L.4.1A

I don't like creeping down the dark alley. 
From which point of view is this sentence written?

• first person 
• second person 
• third person 

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

We laughed so hard that milk came out of our noses. 
From which point of view is the sentence written?

• third person, omniscient
• third person, objective
• first person

Tags

CCSS.L.6.1C

CCSS.RL.6.6

Which sentence is written in third person point of view?

• I brought my mother breakfast this morning. 
• You always wear your seat belt. 
• We didn't mean to hurt Jorge's feelings!
• Cynthia and her brother walked home from school this afternoon. 

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

“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

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

"Leslie sat in front of Paul. She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist. Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him. He wanted to pull a pigtail. He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank." Sideways Stories From Wayside School, Louis Sachar

• First Person
• Second Person
• Third Person Limited
• Third Person Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

“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

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

“Life is where you sleep and what you see when you wake up in the morning, and who you tell about your weird dream, and what you eat for breakfast and who you eat it with. Life isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you make yourself, all the time.”
― Rebecca Stead, Goodbye Stranger

• First Person
• Second Person
• Third Person Limited
• Third Person Omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.6

I can't wait till school is out for the summer!

• 1st person

• 3rd person

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.6