The point of view reflected in the passage is third-person limited omniscient. This is because the narrator conveys the thoughts and feelings of the protagonist, specifically the man thinking about his situation and his desire to escape, while not revealing the thoughts of other characters in the scene.
Use the passage to answer the question.
He unclosed his eyes and saw again the water below him. “If I could free my hands,” he thought, “I might throw off the noose and spring into the stream. By diving I could evade the bullets and, swimming vigorously, reach the bank, take to the woods and get away home. My home, thank God, is as yet outside their lines; my wife and little ones are still beyond the invader’s farthest advance.”
As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man’s brain rather than evolved from it the captain nodded to the sergeant. The sergeant stepped aside.
What point of view is reflected in the passage?
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Responses
third-person limited omniscient
third-person limited omniscient - no response given
first person
first person - no response given
second person
second person - incorrect
third-person omniscient
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