ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is the difference between 1st and 3rd person point of view?
A
1st person is told from 1 character’s perspective only, were 3rd person is a narrator or outsider tells the story.
B
1st person is a narrator or outsider tells the story, were 3rd person is told from 1 character’s perspective only.
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In first person point of view the narrator is a character in the story telling it from their perspective. In third person point of view the narrator is not part of the story and the characters never acknowledge the narrator’s presence. Less common than first and third is second person point of view.

Detailed explanation-2: -The identity of the narrator is revealed through the story’s point of view. A story with first-person point of view is narrated by a character within the story. The observer may be the main character in the story, but the participant is usually not.

Detailed explanation-3: -Third-person omniscient shows us what many characters in the story are thinking and feeling; third-person limited point of view sticks closely to one character in the story. Using third-person limited point of view doesn’t mean you tell the story entirely from the one character’s perspective using I.

Detailed explanation-4: -I, me, my, mine, myself, we, our, ours, ourselves-First person. You, your, yours, yourself-Second person. She, her, hers, herself, he, him, his, himself, they, them, themselves, their, theirs-Third person.

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