Point of View

Point of view is _________ is telling the story.

• where

• how

• why

• who

Which is NOT an example of POV in literature?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

• 4th person

True or false: Wonder has multiple points of view

• true

• false

Sometimes authors might be ___________, so we have to know his purpose AND perspective to understand the whole picture.

• weird

• lazy

• bias

• informed

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

Third person point of view

• When the narrator is a character in the story (pronouns used may be: I, me, my, us, we)

• When the narrator is someone outside of the story (pronouns used may be: he, she, they, them, his, hers)

In which point of view does the narrator not enter the mind of any character but rather reports events from a detached perspective?

• First-person point of view

• Third-person limited point of view

• Third-person omniscient point of view

• Objective point of view

Walter, the white cat, played with his toys while Bumpkins, the gray cat, laid on the couch by the window in the sun.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person

First person point of view

• When the narrator is a character in the story (pronouns used may be: I, me, my, us, we)

• When the narrator is someone outside of the story (pronouns used may be: he, she, they, them, his, hers)

What point of view is the least common?

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person