Name _________________________________ Date ________________________ # ______
Point of View Worksheet B
Directions: Read the following passages and determine the point of view and explain how you
were able to identify it.
Point-of-view: first-person, third-person objective, third-person limited, third-person
omniscient.
1. Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
As I head down to the cliffs with my father, one of the raced officials stops me. He says, “Sean
Kendrick, you are ten years old. You haven’t discovered it yet, but there are more interesting
ways to die than on this beach.”
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
2. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
A smile tugged at Cinder’s lips. Not so much at the nursery rhyme, a phantom song about
pestilence and death that had regained popularity in the past decade. The song itself made her
squeamish. But she did love the glares from passerby as the giggling children fell over in their
path. The inconvenience of having to swarm around the writhing bodies stirred grumbles from
the shoppers, and Cinder adored the children for it.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
3. Legend by Marie Lu
In other words, the Republic has no idea what I look like. They don’t seem to know much of
anything about me, except that I’m young and that when they run my fingerprints they don’t
find a match in their databases. That’s why they hate me, why I’m not the most dangerous
criminal in the country, but the most wanted. I make them look bad.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
POV Worksheet B 1
Name _________________________________ Date ________________________ # ______
Point of View Worksheet B
Directions: Read the following passages and determine the point of view and explain how you
were able to identify it.
Point-of-view: first-person, third-person objective, third-person limited, third-person
omniscient.
4. House of Secrets by Chris Columbus & Ned Vizzini
But what could they do? At eight, twelve, and fifteen, Eleanor, Brendan, and Cordelia were
each absolutely sure that they were at the worst possible age, the most powerless and unfair.
So Brendan gamed and Cordelia read and Eleanor fiddled with the GPS until they pulled up to
128 Sea Cliff Avenue. Then they looked out the window and their jaws dropped. They had
never seen anything like it.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
5. Enclave by Ann Aguire
I was born during the second holocaust. People had told us legends of a time when human
beings lived longer. I thought they were just stories. Nobody even lived to see forty in my world.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
6. Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien
The mother hardly seemed to hear. “Isn’t she beautiful?” she murmured. “And she’s mine. I get
to keep her.”
Oh, no, Gaia thought. Her pleasure and pride evaporated, and she wished now, more than
ever, that her mother were there. Or even Old Meg. Or anybody, for that matter.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
POV Worksheet B 2
Name _________________________________ Date ________________________ # ______
Point of View Worksheet B
Directions: Read the following passages and determine the point of view and explain how you
were able to identify it.
Point-of-view: first-person, third-person objective, third-person limited, third-person
omniscient.
7. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
“Better than everyone else,” she repeated slowly as her bedroom door opened and the Silent
Brothers came in. Aloysius saw the flicker of fear in Adele’s eyes. She drew her arm back from
his grasp. He frowned – he did not like to see fear in his progeny, though he could not deny
that the Brothers were eerie in their silence and their peculiar, gliding motions.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
8. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Feeling discomfited in a way he could not remember having felt before, Bod made his way
back to the Owenses’ tomb, and was pleased to see both of his parents waiting for him beside
it. As he got closer, his pleasure turned into concern: why did Mr. and Mrs. Owens stand like
that, arranged on each side of the tomb like characters from a stained-glass window? He could
not read their faces.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thought’s are revealed? ___________________
9. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The owner of the voice came backing out of the undergrowth so that twigs scratched on a
greasy wind-breaker. The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by
thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter than
the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgments for his feet, and then
looked up through thick spectacles.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
POV Worksheet B 3
Name _________________________________ Date ________________________ # ______
Point of View Worksheet B
Directions: Read the following passages and determine the point of view and explain how you
were able to identify it.
Point-of-view: first-person, second-person, third-person objective, third-person limited, third-
person omniscient.
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame.
He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man,
burnt-corked, in the mirror. Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by
his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long
as he remembered.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
11. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been
turning over in my mind ever since.
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in
this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
12. The Tell-Tale Start by Gordon McAlpine
Mr. Archer’s face froze like a mask, and he fixed the boys with a glare. How could such a small
man seem so big? “Don’t mistake my organization for the PTA, boys,” he said with a growl.
Edgar and Allan kept silent.
Then Mr. Archer smiled, suddenly friendly again. “Do you boys like science experiments?”
They looked at each other. “Yes, particularly messy ones,” they answered cautiously.
Mr. Archer nodded. “Egad! Indeed, we’re very messy.”
He moved quickly toward the boys as if to shake their hands, but instead removed something
shiny from his jacket pocket – tweezers” In a flash, he reached up and plucked several hairs
from each of their heads.
Point-of-view: ________________________________________________________
How do you know? ____________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
If it is third-person, which character’s thoughts are revealed? ___________________
POV Worksheet B 4
Answer Key:
1. 1st
2. 3rd limited, Cinder’s thoughts
3. 1st person
4. 3rd omniscient, Eleanor, Brendan, and Cordelia’s thoughts / feelings are revealed
5. 1st person
6. 3rd limited, Gaia’s thoughts are revealed
7. 3rd limited, Aloysius’s thoughts and feelings are revealed
8. 3rd limited, Bod’s thoughts are revealed
9. 3rd objective, no thoughts revealed
10. 3rd limited, Montag’s thoughts are revealed
11. 1st person
12. 3rd objective, only actions and speech revealed
POV Worksheet B 5
