We waited at the bus stop for almost an hour before we realized the buses weren't running. Our breath made little clouds in the cold air.
Grade 6 · English Language Arts · Unit 7 of 11
Point of View
Who is telling the story?
What your child practises
Telling first person, third person limited and third person omniscient apart, and thinking about what each narrator can and can't know.
Ontario Curriculum expectation: C1.6 · the narrator's point of view
Sample questions
A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.
Question 1
From which point of view is this passage told?
- Third person limited
- First person
- Third person omniscient
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First person
Hint: Look at the narration's pronouns. “I”, “my” or “we” means the narrator is a character telling the story: first person.
Question 2
From which point of view is this passage told?
Lena hoped her grandmother would like the painting. Her grandmother, unwrapping it, thought it was the most beautiful gift she had ever received. Neither of them noticed the cat sneaking off with the ribbon.
- Third person limited
- First person
- Third person omniscient
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Third person omniscient
Hint: The narrator uses he, she or they and tells us what more than one character thinks or knows. That all-knowing view is third person omniscient.
Question 3
What is something a first-person narrator can NOT know for sure?
- what they see and hear
- how they feel themselves
- what they remember from yesterday
- what other characters are secretly thinking
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what other characters are secretly thinking
Hint: A first-person narrator is one character. Can you read other people's minds?
Question 4
From which point of view is this passage told?
Sam thought the surprise would be perfect. His sister Zoe had already guessed it, but she was pretending not to know. Their dad, hiding in the hallway, was trying not to laugh.
- Third person omniscient
- First person
- Third person limited
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Third person omniscient
Hint: The narrator uses he, she or they and tells us what more than one character thinks or knows. That all-knowing view is third person omniscient.
Question 5
From which point of view is this passage told?
You open the small wooden box slowly. Inside, you find a key you have never seen before.
- Third person omniscient
- First person
- Third person limited
- Second person
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Second person
Hint: The narrator speaks to the reader as “you,” as if you are the character. That's second person.
Question 6
From which point of view is this passage told?
Ravi was sure he had lost the race. Noah, standing at the finish line, knew Ravi had won by a step. Their coach was already thinking about how proud she felt of them both.
- Third person limited
- Third person omniscient
- First person
Show answer
Third person omniscient
Hint: The narrator uses he, she or they and tells us what more than one character thinks or knows. That all-knowing view is third person omniscient.