1. “Annabel,” said Jimmy, “give me that rose you are wearing, will you?” Hardly believing that she had heard him right, she unpinned the flower from her dress and placed it in his hand. Jimmy Valentine put on his coat and walked outside the railing toward the front door. As he went he thought he heard a faraway voice that he once knew. A.First-person B.Second-person C.Third-person limited D.Third-person omniscient

2. Third-person Omniscient The narrator grants readers the most access to characters’ thoughts and feelings. With third-person omniscient narration, the narration will reveal more than one characters’ internal workings.

3. First, wash your hands and gather all of your materials. Once you’ve done that, follow all of the directions in your cookbook. A.First-person B.Second-person C.Third-person limited D.Third-person omniscient

4. Second-person In this mode of narration “you” are the agent, such as in this example: you walked down the stairs. This mode of narration is not used very often in narratives and stories. Frequently, directions and instructions are narrated from second-person perspective.

5. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?” A.First-person B.Second-person C.Third-person limited D.Third-person omniscient

6. Third-person Limited When a narrator uses third-person limited perspective, the narrator’s perspective is limited to the internal workings of one character. In other words, the narrator reveals the thoughts and feelings of one character through explicit narration.

7. 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… A.First-person B.Second-person C.Third-person limited D.Third-person omniscient

8. First-person The narrator is directly involved in the events of the story and is telling the tale “first hand.” First- person narration is easy to identify, because the narrator will be telling the story from “I’s” perspective.

9. From the Test Sylvia's face was like a pale star, if one had seen it from the ground, when the last thorny bough was past, and she stood trembling and tired but wholly triumphant, high in the tree-top. Sentence 1 of the final paragraph (see above) is an example of A.First-person B.Second-person C.Third-person limited D.Third-person omniscient

10. Tip This is a tricky one, because one sentence is not enough to establish the POV. This is the key part of the sentence: Sylvia's face was like a pale star, when the last thorny bough was past, and she stood trembling and tired but wholly triumphant, high in the tree-top. if one had seen it from the ground, The author directs you where to look, thus limiting your perspective.