Perspective Review

What is Victor's perspective?

• He thinks French is a confusing language.

• He thinks that Teresa will make fun of him after class.

• He thinks he has embarrassed himself in front of Teresa and ruined his chances with her.

What detail from the text best shows Victor's perspective?

• Victor was too weak from failure to join the class.

• He felt awful. Teresa sat a few desks away, no doubt thinking he was a fool.

• He bit his thumb until he tore off a sliver of skin.

I have a bad anger with mother and father. I will show them. I will do what I did that once. I will screech and laugh loud. I will run on the walls. Last, I will hang head down by all my legs and laugh and drip green all over until they are sorry, they didn’t be nice to me. If they try to beat me again I’ll hurt them. I will. What detail best reveals the narrator's perspective?

• Last, I will hang head down by all my legs and laugh and drip green all over

• I will screech and laugh loud. I will run on the walls.

• I have a bad anger with mother and father. I will show them.

I wasted the last weeks of August watching bad cartoons. I didn't go to the mall, the lake, or the pool, or answer the phone. I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with. I am Outcast. What detail best reveals Melinda's perspective?

• I didn't go to the mall, the lake, or the pool, or answer the phone.

• I wasted the last weeks of August watching bad cartoons.

• I have entered high school with the wrong hair, the wrong clothes, the wrong attitude. And I don't have anyone to sit with.

What is perspective?

• What the narrator perceives or what think of the story.

• What the character thinks.

• What the reader thinks.

• How the characters feel.

Which of the following has a narrator that IS A CHARACTER in the story?

• First Person

• Second Person

• Third Person Objective

• Third Person Limited

• Third Person Omniscient

Which point of view involves the narrator using "I" or "we"?

• First person

• Second person

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

Answer explanation

First person point of view involves the narrator using 'I' or 'we', making it the correct choice in this case.

the way that an author or character views an idea or situation

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A first-person point of view affects the story by:

• Allowing the reader to see the thoughts and feelings of all characters.

• Limiting the perspective to the narrator's experiences and thoughts.

• Offering an unbiased, objective view of all events.

• Focusing only on the actions of secondary characters.

Answer explanation

Limiting the perspective to the narrator's experiences and thoughts.

What does it mean to see things from someone else's perspective?

• To only focus on your own opinion

• To understand and consider how someone else sees or feels about something

• To ignore other people's thoughts