Point of View Perspective

Here you come, being born better late than never: a face presentation. Not the boy your father so desperately wanted, but here you come, anyway, all six pounds three ounces of you. Button nose, conical head, good color. A swirl of dark hair atop your little crown. And a healthy pair of lungs, too.

From Jonathan Evison, This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! Copyright 2015

The author wrote this passage using which point of view? ____________

He himself was a very old man with shaggy white hair which grew over most of his face as well as on his head, and she liked him almost at once.  On the first evening when he came out to meet them at the front door he was so odd-looking that Lucy (who was the youngest) was a little afraid of him though.

From C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Copyright 1950

The author wrote this passage using which point of view? ____________

• first person

• second person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

True or False:  First person narration can be useful in helping readers understand an unfamiliar world by giving us insight into multiple characters’ thoughts and their perceptions of events that unfold in the story.

• True

• False

My phone is waiting on top of the pile of dirty clothes, right where it landed when I chucked it at the wall early Sunday morning because the constant ringing was making me crazy and I was too tired to turn it off.

From Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls. Copyright 2009

The author wrote this passage using which point of view? ____________

• first

• second

• third limited

• third omniscient

True or False:  Perspective refers to who the narrator is in the story, while Point of View refers to how that narrator feels (or views) the events that unfold.

• True

• False

You kind of remember having some bad dreams, but you can't remember what they were. You just lie there, flat as the faded streak of afternoon sunlight that slants through the western window and impales your bed.

From A. M. Jenkins, Damage. Copyright 2001

The author wrote this passage using which point of view? _________

Third-person limited narration closely follows the perspective of one character, so the thoughts, feelings, and observations of that one character are available but the story is told from an outside perspective.

• True

• False

Mr. Campbell, the minister of Essendean, was waiting for me by the garden gate, good man! He asked me if I had breakfasted; and hearing that I lacked for nothing, he took my hand in both of his and clapped it kindly under his arm.

From Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped. Copyright 1889

The author wrote this passage using which point of view? _________

a particular attitude or way of viewing something

• perspective

• tone

• third person

• connotation

A belief or view about something

• Mood

• Tone

• Opinion

• Persuade