Point of View

Alice has written a story about a young man who doesn’t always agree with established rules. Choose the correct type of conflict to complete the sentence. The protagonist, Andrew, always gets into trouble at school and at his job. This type of conflict is called character versus______

Match the following

• the time and place in which a story happens

• setting

• a literary technique used to create a particular effect in a text

• literary device

• the central idea in a story that is revealedby the setting and the actions of characters

• atmosphere

• the mood in stories that authors create through descriptions of characters and settings

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Which words in this excerpt from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre show that it is written in the first-person point of view? (a)  

• I, me, my
• Both
• She, her
• Miss Eyre, Eliza

Based on the underlined words, which point of view is used in this passage?

• second-person point of view

• first-person point of view

• third-person omniscient point of view

• third-person limited point of view

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The passage uses the ​ (a)  

point of view. This point of view is shown through the use of ​ (b)   pronouns and the fact that the narrator describes the thoughts of only one character.

• third-person limited
• third-person
• first-person
• third-person omniscient

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Read the following excerpt from Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” This short story is about a family that includes an old woman, her son, Bailey, and the son’s wife and children. What is the point of view of the excerpt? (a)  

• third-person limited
• third-person omniscient
• first-person
• second-person

Third person omniscient point of view is when the author reveals the thoughts and feelings of (a)  

• more than one character
• one character

Third person limited is when the author reveals the thoughts and feelings of

• one character are revealed 
• more than one character are revealed
• nobody
• the author

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Third person point of view is when the narrator is talking about (a)  

• someone else
• themselves
• the speaker
• nobody

Second person point-of-view is when the test is written like a (a)  

• how to do book
• horror story
• nonfiction
• fiction