Point of View

First Person Point of View -- check all that apply

• The main character is telling the story.

• Uses: I, me, mine, myself, we, us ours.

• The reader knows only what that character knows.

• The story is told from the perspective of you.

Second Person Point of View - check all that apply

• The story is told from the perspective of you.

• Uses: you, yours, yourself

• Limited to only one character. The narrator tells the story from the viewpoint of character.

• This is an uncommon form of writing, sometimes used in poetry, email or speeches.

Third Person Point of View - check all that apply

• Uses: you, yours, yourself

• Uses: he, she, it, his, hers, they, them, theirs

• The narrator is not a character in the story.

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

From what point of view is the excerpt written?

• First Person Point of View

• Second Person Point of View

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

How do the characters feel during the excerpt?

• enthusiastic

• inquisitive

• anxious

• upset

From what point of view is the excerpt written?

• First Person Point of View

• Second Person Point of View

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

The reader can conclude that Fern will --

• get her mother's help to stop her father.

• continue to fight and save the pig.

• eventually give up and come back inside.

• get her mother's help to stop her father.

From what point of view is the excerpt written?

• First Person Point of View

• Second Person Point of View

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

The narrator's voice strongly communicate a --

• hate that will never end.

• lack of connection to what is going on.

• cold emotion.

• desire for vengeance.

From what point of view is the excerpt written?

• First Person Point of View

• Second Person Point of View

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient