Point of View in Literature

Which words in this excerpt from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre show that it is written in the first-person point of view?

• Ladies, Eliza

• She, her

• 
  I, me, my

• You are, you can

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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?

• 
  first-person

• 
  third-person limited

• third-person omniscient

• second-person

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

• More than one character

• Only one character

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Third person point of view is when the narrator is talking about

• The speaker

• Nobody

• Themselves

• Someone else

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Julia was beaming with happiness as she saw the fair tents. Her brother, John, on the other hand would have rather stayed home.
Which point of view is this an example of?

• 1st Person

• 2nd Person

• 3rd Person Limited

• 3rd Person Omniscient

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The narrator knows all of the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in a work

• first person

• second person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

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Which type of point of view describes when the person telling the story is outside the story and the reader knows the thoughts of only one character?

• 1st person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

• 2nd person

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Story told from the perspective of someone outside the story...

• First person point of view

• Omniscient point of view

• Third person point of view

• Third person limited point of view

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What Point of View is used in Monsters University"/"Forrest Gump?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person

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In which POV do you see "you and your" used to convey the story?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

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