POV Review

This point of view is when the narrator is talking directly to the reader, who plays a critical component in the story. Common pronouns from this POV include "you" and "yours."

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

These points of view use narrators who are not characters in the story. Common pronouns used in this POV include "she," "he," "they," "his," "hers," "them," and "theirs."

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

This point of view is when the narrator is a character in the story. Common pronouns from this POV include "I," "us," "mine," "we," "my," and "our."

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

This point of view is when the narrator presents just the facts. They can only tell you what they have seen or heard.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Objective

This narrator can see into the minds of all the characters and can report what they are thinking and feeling.

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Objective

This narrator tells the story from the perspective of one character. The reader can find out what one character thinks or feels.

• First Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Objective

EXCERPT FROM THOMAS PAINE'S COMMON SENSE:

"I know it is difficult to get over local or long standing prejudices, yet if we will suffer ourselves to examine the component parts of the English constitution, we shall find them to be the base remains of two ancient tyrannies, compounded with some new Republican materials."

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Do you ever feel/Like a plastic bag/Drifting through the wind/Wanting to start again?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

A chemistry student investigated several redox reactions in which metals were placed in a solution containing varied metal ions. They took several measurements and obtained the following results: two of the cells gave a positive cell potential while one gave a negative cell potential.

• First Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

• Third Person Objective

When the principal called Martha into the office, she knew what it would be about. He looked uncomfortable and unhappy because he felt guilty about making Martha feel like she might not get the scholarship jacket.

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient