Point of View Practice

The story is told by an outside narrator.

• First Person
• Second Person
• Third Person

Has a neutral narrator that is not aware of characters’ thoughts or feelings. The narrator presents the story with an observational tone.

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

The narrator has access to only one character’s inside thoughts and feelings. This is typically the main character (protagonist).

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

Readers learn the inside thoughts and feelings of all the main characters.

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

Perspective in which the reader is addressed (you become a part of the story)

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

Told from the perspective of the protagonist

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

What point of view is "The Most Dangerous Game" told in? Example passage: "The bed was good, and the pajamas of the softest silk, and he was tired in every fiber of his being, but nevertheless Rainsford could not quiet his brain with the opiate of sleep. He lay, eyes wide open. Once he thought he heard stealthy steps in the corridor outside his room."

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

What point of view is "The Necklace" told in? Example passages: "He stopped, stupefied and utterly at a loss when he saw that his wife was beginning to cry." "The sight of the little Breton girl who came to do the work in her little house aroused heart-broken regrets and hopeless dreams in her mind." "Madame Forestier, deeply moved, took her two hands..."

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

What point of view is "Thank You Ma'am" told in? Example passage: "After he had dried his face and not knowing what else to do dried it again, the boy turned around, wondering what next."

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

What point of view is "The Story of an Hour" told in? Example passage: "There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air."

• Third Person Limited
• First Person
• Second Person
• Third Person
• Third Person Objective