Comparing Text with POV

What does POV stand for?

• Point of View
• Please Review
• Pass over Vivian
• Point of Refernce

What is the definition of Point of View? 

• Descriptions of character
• Perspective which a story is told
• First person Point of View
• Third-person omniscient

Who is telling us the story in First Person Point of View? 

• An outside narrator
• No one
• The teacher
• A character in the story 

Who is speaking to us (the audience) in Third Person Point of View? 

• a character in the story
• no one is
• someone giving instructions
• an outside narrator not in the story

Third Person Limited Point of View is...

• we know everything about every character
• we only know internal information about a character

• we know nothing internal about any character(s)

• a character is speaking to us

What is the difference between 3rd Person LIMITED and OBJECTIVE?

• In OBJECTIVE, the narrator keeps a neutral perspective.

• In OBJECTIVE, the narrator can only describe characters' spoken words and actions.

• In LIMITED, the narrator is limited to a single character's thoughts and feelings.

• All of these are true.

Billy was happy to teach Robbie to ride a horse. Billy was amazed that Robbie had never ridden before, but he thought that it would be rude to mention that. Robbie was worried as they walked to the barn. When he looked at the horse, what he saw was a huge, powerful animal. “How can I control something that big, when I’m used to living in a city and riding a bike?” he wondered. Then he asked Billy, “Will the horse run fast? What if the horse won’t move?” Billy didn’t understand why Robbie asked so many questions.

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

“A dare is a dare,” Ben heard his friend Tony say behind him as he walked up the creaking steps.
The October wind started blowing harder the closer Ben got to the front door. Old, grey wood covered in spider webs surrounded him.
There’s no way out this now, he thought. Why did I make up that story in the first place?
“Come on, man!” Tony called to Ben. “I don’t have all day!”
Ben glanced down at the rusted, metal door handle. He could see teeny bumps covering his skin like the chicken he sometimes saw his mom making for dinner.
He closed his eyes, grabbed the cold, metal handle, and pushed the door open.
If the passage were told from Tony’s point of view, the reader would probably learn

• why Ben lies to Tony about going inside the old house.
• what Ben tells his family about going in the old house.
• whether Tony and Ben’s parents are worried about them.
• what Tony does after Ben goes inside the old house.

“A dare is a dare,” Ben heard his friend Tony say behind him as he walked up the creaking steps.
The October wind started blowing harder the closer Ben got to the front door. Old, grey wood covered in spider webs surrounded him.
There’s no way out this now, he thought. Why did I make up that story in the first place?
“Come on, man!” Tony called to Ben. “I don’t have all day!”
Ben glanced down at the rusted, metal door handle. He could see teeny bumps covering his skin like the chicken he sometimes saw his mom making for dinner.
He closed his eyes, grabbed the cold, metal handle, and pushed the door open.
The author focuses on the thoughts and feelings of only one character. By doing so, the author helps the reader understand

• what makes Tony send Ben to the old house
• what Tony thinks about Ben’s adventure.
• how Ben feels about making up a story.
• how the abandoned house seems to Tony

“A dare is a dare,” Ben heard his friend Tony say behind him as he walked up the creaking steps.
The October wind started blowing harder the closer Ben got to the front door. Old, grey wood covered in spider webs surrounded him.
There’s no way out this now, he thought. Why did I make up that story in the first place?
“Come on, man!” Tony called to Ben. “I don’t have all day!”
Ben glanced down at the rusted, metal door handle. He could see teeny bumps covering his skin like the chicken he sometimes saw his mom making for dinner.
He closed his eyes, grabbed the cold, metal handle, and pushed the door open.
Which detail from the passage shows that Ben is afraid to go inside the house?

• He closed his eyes and grabbed the cold, metal handle.
• The October wind started blowing harder.
• “Come on, man!” Tony called to Ben.
• Like he sometimes saw his mom making for dinner.