Question

What point of view has Ulysses S. Grant used in this excerpt from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant? At the close of the final examination I made no formal application for assignment to any particular arm of the service, for I knew that my standing would not entitle me to one of the existing vacancies, and that I should be obliged to take a place among the brevet second lieutenants. When the appointments were made I therefore found myself attached to the First Infantry, well pleased that I had surmounted all the difficulties that confront the student at our national school, and looking forward with pleasant anticipation to the life before me. A. narrative point of view B. second-person point of view C. third-person point of view D. first-person point of view

Answer 1

The First-person point of view

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Answer 2

D. first-person point of view

Step-by-step explanation:

Ulysses S. Grant (1822 – 1885) was the 18th president of the United States. Before presidency he led the Union Army in winning the Civil War.

In this excerpt from his Personal Memoirs, Ulysses is using first-person point of view. The author is using first person pronouns I, myself, my, our and me.

Narrative Point of view:

It is the perspective from which a story/narrative is described. A narrative/literary work may have any one or more of these three types of narrative point of views;

First-person Point of View:

When the story is narrated by a narrator in from his/her own perspective using first person pronouns such as I, we, my, our, me us, myself, ourselves etc. the point of view is called first-person point of view.

Third-person Omniscient Point of view: It is when the story is narrated by someone in third person pronouns such he, she, his, her, they, them, their etc. and the narrator seems to know everything about character's thoughts, locations which an ordinary person cannot know.

Third-person Limited Point of view: It is when the story is narrated by someone in third person pronouns such he, she, his, her, they, them, their etc. but the narrator knows only those things about characters and places which only an ordinary human beings is believed to know.