Guide to Literary Terms

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Point of View in Literature Quiz

Show what you know about point of view in literature.

  1. The least used point of view is ___________ due the difficulty of narrating a story using this perspective.

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  2. When narrating the story from the first person point of view, the narrator often uses the pronoun:

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  3. When using third person limited, the narrator expresses:

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  4. The most common point of view used when writing literature is_______ because it creates the most variations in story telling.

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  5. The point of view of a story is:

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

A Thousand Splendid Suns

by Khaled Hosseini

The Fire Next Time

by James Baldwin

Kanthapura

by Raja Rao

The River Between

by Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The Vendor of Sweets

by R. K. Narayan

A Walk in the Night

by Alex La Guma