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Identify POV
Identify POV
Tell-Tale Heart
Scholarship Jacket
Retrieved Reformation
100
You are a mountain climber. Three years ago you spent the summer at a climbing school in the mountains of Colorado. Your instructors said that you had natural skills as a climber. You made rapid progress and by the end of the summer you were leading difficult rock and ice climbs.
What is 2nd person?
100
It all began when Ms. Frizzle showed our class a film strip about the human body. We knew trouble was about to start, because we knew Ms. Frizzle was the strangest teacher in the school.
What is 1st person?
100
What point of view is the following excerpt written in? "True!—nervous—very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am! but why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses—not destroyed—not dulled them."
What is first person?
100
In what POV is the following passage written? "My oldest sister, Rosie, had won the jacket a few years back, and I fully expected to also. I was foutenn and in the eights grade. I had been a striaght A student since the first grade."
What is first person?
100
What point of view is the following excerpt written in? "A young lady crossed the street, passed him at the corner, and entered a door over which was the sign "The Elmore Bank." Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgot what he was, and became another man. She lowered her eyes and colored slightly. Young men of Jimmy's style and looks were scarce in Elmore.
What is third-person omniscient?
200
I witnessed the kidnapping of Betty Ann Mulvaney. Well, me and the twenty-three other people in first period Latin class at Clayton High School (student population 1,200). Unlike everybody else, however, I actually did something to try and stop it. Well, sort of. I went, “Kurt, what are you doing?” Kurt just rolled his eyes. He was all, “Relax, Jen. It’s a joke, okay?”
What is 1st person?
200
The girl he loved was shy and quick and the smallest in the class, and usually she said nothing, but one day she opened her mouth and roared, and when the teacher--it was French class--asked her what she was doing, she said, in French, I am a lion, and he wanted to talk to her, and smile, and impress her.
What is 3rd person limited?
200
What is one reason the author of 'Tell-Tale Heart' may have chosen to write the story in the POV that he did?
To make the reader feel closer to the narrator, to allow the reader to understand the narrator better, to allow the reader to judge the narrator's reliability.
200
What is one reason the author of 'The Scholarship Jacket' may have chosen to write the story in the POV that he did?
To help the reader feel closer to Martha, to encourage the reader to empathize with Martha.
200
What is one reason the author of "A Retrieved Reformation" may have chosen to write in this POV?
To give the reader information about all of the characters, to allow the reader to know what is going on at all times.
300
Aunt Harriet never meant to say any of this when Elizabeth Ann could hear, but the little girl’s ears were as sharp as little girls’ ears always are, and long before she was nine, she knew all about the opinion Aunt Harriet had of the Putneys. She did not know, to be sure, what “chores” were, but she took it confidently from Aunt Harriet’s voice that they were something very, very dreadful.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
300
You are not the kind of guy who would be a place like this at this time of the morning.  But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy.  You are at a restaurant talking to a girl.  The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. You’re not sure.
What is 2nd person?
300
What would have been different about the 'Tell-Tale Heart' if it had been written in third person omniscent?
We would know the thoughts and feelings of the old map and of the policemen.
300
List 3 things that would have been different about the Scholarship Jacket if it had been told from the POV of the principal?
1) We would know why the principal changed his mind at the end of the story 2) we would not know about the conversation that happened between Martha and her grandpa 3) We would know how the principal felt about giving the jacket to Joann
300
What would have been different if the story had been told from the POV of Ben Price (third-person limited?)
We would have only known what Ben was thinking and feeling, we wouldn't know whether or not Jimmy loved Annabelle, we would know why Ben let Jimmy go at the end of the story.
400
The man brings his legs over the front of the cot when the shake starts again. A longer, firmer shake, and another crash, this time closer. The man gets to his feet and walks slowly to the door. Silence. The boy sits up. “No,” the man whispers.
What is 3rd person objective?
400
The last rains lifted the corn quickly and scattered weed colonies and grass along the sides of the road. In the last part of May the sky grew pale and the clouds that had hung in high puffs for so long in the spring were dissipated. The sun flared down on the growing corn day after day until a line of brown spread along the edge of each green bayonet. The clouds appeared, and went away, and in a while they did not try anymore. The weeds grew darker green to protect themselves, and they did not spread anymore.
What is 3rd person objective?
400
What is one disadvantage of the POV that 'Tell-Tale Heart' was written in?
The reader does not know if they can trust the narrator.
400
If we had known both Martha's and the principal's thoughts and feelings, what POV would the story have been written in?
What is third-person omniscent?
400
What is one piece of information in the story that the reader knew, that Jimmy did not?
That Ben Price was in Elmore, following Jimmy, and was going to arrest him.
500
Ozma took the arm of her hostess, but Dorothy lagged behind. When at last she rejoined Glinda and Ozma in the hall, she found them talking earnestly about the condition of the people, and how to make them more happy and contented– although they were already the happiest and most contented folks in all the world. This interested Ozma, of course, but it didn’t interest Dorothy very much, so the little girl ran over to the big table on which was lying open Glinda’s Great Book of Records.
What is 3rd person omniscient?
500
Eragon knelt in a bed of trampled reed grass and scanned the tracks with a practiced eye. The prints told him that the deer had been in the meadow only a half hour before. Soon they would bed down. His target, a small doe with a pronounced limp in her left forefoot, was still in the herd. He was amazed she had made it so far without a wolf or a bear catching her.
What is 3rd person limited?
500
Give 2 examples FROM THE TEXT that show that the narrator may not be reliable. You may use your book, but you MUST be able to explain your examples. You have 3 minutes.
Answers will vary-acceptable ONLY if they are backed up with evidence.
500
Find 3 examples from 'The Scholarship Jacket' that show how Martha is feeling. You may use your book. You have 3 minutes.
Answers will vary.
500
Who else in the story knows that Jimmy and Ralph are the same person? How does he know this?
Ben Price knows that Jimmy and Ralph are the same person. He knows that because he has been following Jimmy and is familiar with his habits.