Question

Which two excerpts use the third-person limited point of view?

With a flourish and a bang, the music stops. The couples exchange artificial, effortless smiles, facetiously repeat "lade-da-da dum-dum," and then the clatter of young feminine voices soars over the burst of clapping. ( F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair")

It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numb nose and cheek-bones with his mittened hand. He was a warm-whiskered man, but the hair on his face did not protect the high cheek-bones and the eager nose that thrust itself aggressively into the frosty air. At the man's heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, gray-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf. (Jack London, “To Build A Fire”)

At a little, after seven Judy Jones came down-stairs. She wore a blue silk afternoon dress, and he was disappointed at first that she had not put on something more elaborate. This feeling was accentuated when, after a brief greeting, she went to the door of a butler's pantry and pushing it open called: "You can serve dinner, Martha." He had rather expected that a butler would announce dinner, that there would be a cocktail. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams")

Phyllis did up her bootlace and went on in silence, but her shoulders shook, and presently a fat tear fell off her nose and splashed on the metal of the railway line. Bobbie saw it. "Why, what's the matter, darling?" she said, stopping short and putting her arm around the heaving shoulders. "He called me un-un-ungentlemanly," sobbed Phyllis. "I didn't call him unladylike, not even when he tied my Clorinda to the firewood bundle and burned her at the stake for a martyr." Peter had indeed perpetrated this outrage a year or two before. (E. Nesbit, The Railway Children)

An hour later, while Marjorie was in the library absorbed in composing one of those non-committal, marvelously elusive letters that only a young girl can write, Bernice reappeared, very red-eyed and consciously calm. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Bernice Bobs Her Hair")

Answer 1

B. and C.

Step-by-step explanation:

It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numb nose and cheek-bones with his mittened hand. He was a warm-whiskered man, but the hair on his face did not protect the high cheek-bones and the eager nose that thrust itself aggressively into the frosty air. At the man's heels trotted a dog, a big native husky, the proper wolf-dog, gray-coated and without any visible or temperamental difference from its brother, the wild wolf. (Jack London, “To Build A Fire”)

At a little, after seven Judy Jones came down-stairs. She wore a blue silk afternoon dress, and he was disappointed at first that she had not put on something more elaborate. This feeling was accentuated when, after a brief greeting, she went to the door of a butler's pantry and pushing it open called: "You can serve dinner, Martha." He had rather expected that a butler would announce dinner, that there would be a cocktail. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Winter Dreams")

Answer 2

❤️Hello!❤️ The third-person limited POV uses words like he/she and his/her to tell the story and refers to the characters by their names. The narrator does not take a part in the story and tells it from an outside perspective. However, because it's 3rd person limited, you know the thoughts/feelings of a single character.

Go through each excerpt and figure out which ones are 3rd person and which ones use a limited POV.

All the excerpts use 3rd person because you don't see an "I/we" (1st person) or a "you" (2nd person), and they all use "he/she/her/him/names of characters."

However, only two excerpts let you into the mind/thoughts & feelings of one character. In B, you can hear the character, the man, conclude that "It certainly as cold," which is something you would not know unless you knew the thoughts of the character. In C, you can hear that the man "was disappointed at first that she had not put on something more elaborate" and that "he had rather expected that a butler would announce dinner." These are also things you would have not known without a limited POV. Also notice that only one character's thoughts are heard and you can't hear the thoughts of the dog in B or Judy Jones in C.

Your answers are B and C. Hope this helps! ↪️ Autumn ↩️