The author establishes a third-person limited point of view in these paragraphs. The narrative focuses on Rainsford's thoughts and feelings, but it is told from an outside perspective rather than from Rainsford's own first-person perspective.
Use the paragraphs to answer the question.
Rainsford, reclining in a steamer chair, indolently puffed on his favorite brier. The sensuous drowsiness of the night was on him. "It's so dark," he thought, "that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids——"
An abrupt sound startled him. Off to the right he heard it, and his ears, expert in such matters, could not be mistaken. Again he heard the sound, and again. Somewhere, off in the blackness, someone had fired a gun three times.
Which point of view does the author establish in these paragraphs?
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Responses
second person
second person
third-person omniscient
third-person omniscient
first person
first person
third-person limited
third-person limited
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