Name:_______________
Point of View: Follow-up
1.
Starfire Angels by Melanie Nilles :
Raea gasped and scanned the shadows around her. Her crystal pendant glowed faintly like the aquamarine splotches on the backs and palms of her hands, but it all faded to nothing before she could blink. Impossible. She couldn’t have seen what she thought she saw.
From what perspective is this passage?:
A.
First Person Point of View
B.
Second Person Point of View
C.
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
D.
Third Person Objective Point of View
Now read the following sentence from the passage written from a different perspective:
I gasped and scanned the shadows around me.
What is the new perspective?
A.
First Person Point of View
B.
Second Person Point of View
C.
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
D.
Third Person Objective Point of View
2.
Goliath by Scott Westerfeld:
“It’ll get much colder as we angle north,” Dylan said worriedly around a mouthful of his breakfast. “You should both finish your potatoes. They’ll keep you warm.”
Alek turned stubbornly, “But we’re already north of Tokyo. Why go out of our way?”
He breathed on the window glass before him and wondered what he had gotten himself into.
From what perspective is this passage told?
A.
First Person Point of View
B.
Second Person Point of View
C.
Third Person Limited Point of View
D.
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
Which sentence BEST shows Alek’s point of view?:
A.
“Why go out of our way?”
B.
Dylan said worriedly around a mouthful of his breakfast.
C.
“It’ll get much colder as we angle north.”
D.
He breathed on the window glass before him and wondered what he had gotten himself into.

3. Ask a Ninja Presents: The Ninja Handbook by the International Order of Ninjas:
Remember, any tool that you can use against an enemy may also be used against you.
Therefore it is highly recommended that you build a course with your clan to practice keeping your wits when something is trying to set you off course. You can make your own mini gauntlet to increase your skills in your own backyard.
From what perspective is this passage?:
A.
First Person Point of View
B.
Second Person Point of View
C.
Third Person Limited Point of View
D.
Third Person Omniscient Point of View
If this passage was written in Third Person Limited Point of View, what would the first sentence look like?
A.
Remember, any tool that you can use against an enemy may also be used against you.
B.
I had to remember that any tool that I could use against an enemy could also be used against me.
C.
She had to remember that any tool that she could use against an enemy could also be used against her.
D.
We had to remember that any tool that we could use against an enemy could also be used against us.
4. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee:
We lived on the main residential street in town—Atticus, Jem and I, plus Calpurnia our cook. Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment. Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence.
She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature.
From what perspective is this passage?:
A.
First Person Point of View
B.
Second Person Point of View
C.
Third Person Objective Point of View
D.
Third Person Limited Point of View
Who is telling this story?
A.
A narrator who is not in the story
B.
Atticus
C.
A character in the story
D.
Your teacher