Point of View Pretest

A type of narrative perspective in where the  author uses pronouns like ''your" and "you."

• second-person point of view
• third-person omniscient point of view
• first-person point of view
• third-person objective point of view

Identify the point of view:
Cathy leaned into her computer screen with big eyes. She couldn't believe it- she had finally gotten a 100 on her math test! She knew her parents would be proud of her.

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

How can you know that something is written in first-person point of view?

• pronouns like I, my and him are used
• the author is addressing the reader
• the narrator is not in the story
• pronouns like I, my and we are used

Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar.

Leslie sat in front of Paul.  She had two long, brown pigtails that reached all the way down to her waist.  Paul saw those pigtails, and a terrible urge came over him.  He wanted to pull a pigtail.  He wanted to wrap his fist around it, feel the hair between his fingers, and just yank.  He thought it would be fun to tie the pigtails together, or better yet, tie them to her chair.  But most of all, he just wanted to pull one. 

• first-person
• second-person
• third-person objective
• third-person limited

Third-person omniscient point of view is when the narrator knows the feelings and thoughts of ______.

• two or more characters
• one character
• no characters
• three or more characters

Alice's adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel 
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"  So she was considering, in her own mind whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.  

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

What point of view uses the word 
Spongebob as a character?

• first-person
• second-person
• third-person

John's neighbor is angry because John plays loud music every day. John is frustrated at his neighbor because his neighbor complains too much. They talked about it and came to a compromise--John will still play his loud music every day, but will only play for 1 hour instead of 2.

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

from The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Effie Trinket trots to the podium and gives her signature, “Happy Hunger Games! And may the odds be ever in your favor!” But suddenly I am thinking of Gale and how the odds are not in his favor.

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

What is third-person objective point of view?

• when the narrator is not part of the story; the narrator tells only the actions and dialogue of characters
• when the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of two or more characters in the story
• the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one character
• the narrator speaks directly to the reader, giving instructions or advice