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Just after we turned 16, my best friend and I got jobs at our Use the story excerpt to answer the question. favorite shoe store. On our first day we were in the storage room, gazing up at the racks of merchandise we would spend What narrative technique does the writer use to create the next several weeks hauling out to the floor for customers. an effect? My friend promptly knocked a cart into the rack and sent a (1 point) small stack of boxes careening into the wall. He moved to clean up the mess, but I quickly stopped him. On the way in, he'd nearly tripped over his own feet. Enough was enough. vivid description “Please, let me,” I said. “You’re having a clumsy day. Let's not figurative language make things worse." verbal irony He laughed as I picked the boxes up and spun to put them back on the shelf. But as I spun, my hip caught the cart hard. It dramatic irony bounced into the rack again—and this time, the rack collapsed entirely. Boxes tumbled, shoes went everywhere, and soon we were staring at a huge mess. "At least we didn't make it worse," my friend said. "That would have been bad."
Story 2: Working at the store was a real grind, but they all kney what was at stake--what they stood to gain. So long as they could keep the old shopkeeper happy and bring home their checks to squirrel away each Friday, the possibility of a summer trip glowed on their horizon. It would be just them, too. Their parents had already agreed. Their first real taste of independence.
When things got especially tough--the customers loved to be rude!-- the friends would duck into the darkest corner of the storeroom to text one another for support. Sometimes they would browse pictures of the beach or the boardwalk. It was always enough to get them through another shift
Story 1 is told from a ______(third person omniscient, third person limited, second person, first person) point of view.
Story 2 is told from a _____(third person omniscient, third person limited, second person, first person) point of view
Story 2: Working at the store was a real grind, but they all kney what was at stake--what they stood to gain. So long as they could keep the old shopkeeper happy and bring home their checks to squirrel away each Friday, the possibility of a summer trip glowed on their horizon. It would be just them, too. Their parents had already agreed. Their first real taste of independence.
When things got especially tough--the customers loved to be rude!-- the friends would duck into the darkest corner of the storeroom to text one another for support. Sometimes they would browse pictures of the beach or the boardwalk. It was always enough to get them through another shift
Story 1 is told from a ______(third person omniscient, third person limited, second person, first person) point of view.
Story 2 is told from a _____(third person omniscient, third person limited, second person, first person) point of view
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Story 1 is told from a **first person** point of view.
Story 2 is told from a **third person limited** point of view.
Story 2 is told from a **third person limited** point of view.