Point of View Perspective

True or False:  There are some major limitations to using a first person point of view.  If a story is written using first person POV, readers won’t be able to get the thoughts and feelings of other characters in the novel. 

• True

• False

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

• first

• second

• third limited

• third omniscient

Using __________ point of view (the main character in the story is the narrator) allows an author to dive much more deeply into that narrator’s personality, since the reader gets to hear that narrator's inner thoughts and experience the narrator's emotions in their own words. 

• first

• second

• third limited

• third omniscient

In __________ POV, the narrator relates the events of the story using I think, feel, hear, see. 

"We shall need a camp-fire if we've got to spend the night here," said Peter. "I've got matches. Let's go and see if we can collect some dry wood."  Everyone saw the sense of this, and for the next half-hour they were busy.

From C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian. Copyright 1951

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

• first person

• second person

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

In __________ POV, the narrator relates the events of the story using he/she thinks, feels, hears, sees for one character in the story. 

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

• 1st

• 2nd

• 3rd limited

• 3rd omniscient

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? ____________

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

• True

• False

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