Point of View and Perspective

What is point of view?

• the time and place of a story

• the author's purpose

• the perspective from which a story is told

• the main events

Which point of view is when a narrator outside of the story tells the story?

• first person point of view

• second person point of view

• third person point of view

True or false: A character cannot be a narrator.

• True

• False

Which point of view is when a character in the story tells the story from his or her own perspective?

• first person point of view

• second person point of view

• third person point of view

Is the excerpt written in first person or third person point of view?

• first person

• third person

Is the excerpt written in first person or third person point of view?

• first person

• third person

Is the excerpt written in first person or third person point of view?

• first person

• third person

Is the excerpt written in first person or third person point of view?

• first person

• third person

Is the excerpt written in first person or third person point of view?

• first person

• third person

Read the paragraph and then determine whose perspective the story is told. Who is the narrator?

• Museum Guide

• Student

• Teacher

• Parent