Question

What is the author's point of view in the passage?


third-person omniscient


second-person


first-person


third-person limited

Answer 1

I don’t see the passage — can you paste it? I can identify the point of view once I can read it.

Meanwhile, here’s how to tell which of those four it is:

- First-person: narrator uses I/me/my and is a character in the story. You get that narrator’s internal thoughts and perceptions only.
Example signal: “I walked to the door and felt my heart pounding.”

- Second-person: narrator addresses the reader as you; the reader is placed in the story.
Example signal: “You open the door and see a shadow.”

- Third-person limited: narrator uses he/she/they and follows only one character’s internal thoughts and feelings (the narrator doesn’t know other characters’ minds).
Example signal: “She hesitated, her stomach knotting. He had no idea what she felt.”

- Third-person omniscient: narrator uses he/she/they and has access to multiple characters’ thoughts and feelings or gives broad, godlike commentary beyond any single character.
Example signal: “She worried about the future, while across town he dreamed of escape; neither suspected the twist fate had planned.”

Paste the passage and I’ll pick the correct POV and explain why.