Point of View

Match the following

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

• theme

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

• atmosphere

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

• setting

• the time and place in which a story happens

• literary device

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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?

• I, me, my

• Both

• She, her

• Miss Eyre, Eliza

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

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

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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?

• third-person limited

• third-person omniscient

• first-person

• second-person

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

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

• more than one character
• one character

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

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

• someone else
• themselves
• the speaker
• nobody

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

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

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

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

the narrator is the

• person telling the story
• the simile
• person who wrote the story
• a flat character

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4