Literary Point of View

Which type of third person narrator can only tell what you can be seen or heard?

• omniscient

• limited

• objective

Which point of view is told by the character involved? The reader sees the pronouns I, me, we, us.

• 2nd person

• 1st person

• 3rd person limited

Which point of view has a narrator telling the story from the outside? You will see the following pronouns: her, him, he, she, and it. The narrator will also refer to the characters by name.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

When I am trying to determine the POV, do I analyze the dialogue or the narrated parts?

• dialogue - the characters are speaking (the dialogue is in quotation marks)

• narration - the state of narrating the story (the narration is NOT in quotation marks)

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

• I, me, my

• Both

• She, her

• Miss Eyre, Eliza

The passage uses the ​ (a)  

point of view. This point of view is shown through the use of ​ (b)   pronouns and the fact that the narrator describes the thoughts of only one character.

• third-person limited

• third-person

• first-person

• third-person omniscient

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?

• third-person limited

• third-person omniscient

• first-person

• second-person

In which POV do you see "he, she, and them" used to convey the story?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person objective

• 3rd person omniscient

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

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

In which POV do you see" I, me, and my" used to convey the story?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person objective

• 3rd person omniscient