What is a third-person limited point of view?
Answer: the perspective of a narrator who is outside the story and has access to the thoughts and experiences of one character.
What is a narrator?
Answer: the voice that tells a story.
What is the perspective of the narrator in a literary text called?
Answer: point of view.
Match each work to its point of view.
- A Fable - Third-person limited
- A Book - First-person
Which best describes the difference in the way first-person point of view is used in “The Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allan Poe and “Longing” by Paul Laurence Dunbar?
Answer: In “The Tell Tale Heart,” the first-person point of view shows the main character’s descent into madness, while in “Longing,” it shows the speaker’s yearning for their loved one.