Question

Match each excerpt to the type of narration technique it uses.

Tiles:
first person
second person
third-person
limited third-person omniscient

Pairs:

If you could choose an hour of wakefulness out of the whole night, it would be this. Since your sober bedtime, at eleven, you have had rest enough to take off the pressure of yesterday's fatigue, while before you, till the sun comes from "Far Cathay" to brighten your window, there is almost the space of a summer night—one hour to be spent in thought with the mind's eye half shut, and two in pleasant dreams, and two in that strangest of enjoyments the forgetfulness alike of joy and woe. (from “The Haunted Mind” by William Faulkner)

Every Sabbath morning in the summer-time I thrust
back the curtain to watch the sunrise stealing down
a steeple which stands opposite my chamber window.
First the weathercock begins to flash; then a fainter
lustre gives the spire an airy aspect; next it encroaches
on the tower and causes the index of the dial to glisten
like gold as it points to the gilded figure of the hour.

(from “Sunday at Home” by Nathaniel Hawthorne)

He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor
of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights,
nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only
dreamed of places now and of the lions on the
beach.

(from The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway)


There were a king with a large jaw and a queen with
a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a
king with a large jaw and a queen with a fair face, on
the throne of France. In both countries it was clearer
than crystal to the lords of the State preserves of
loaves and fishes, that things in general were settled
for ever.

(from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens)

Answer 1

• Second person.
• First person.
• Limited third-person omniscient.
• Third person.

Step-by-step explanation:

These are the points of view that each passage reflects. First person refers to the narrator talking about himself. Therefore, he uses the pronoun "I." Second person occurs when the narrator addresses the reader, and he uses the pronoun "you." Limited third-person omniscient happens when the author has full access to the mind of a single character. Finally, third person happens when the narrator can see everything that is happening in the story, even when the characters are not aware of these things.

Answer 2

2nd person

1st person

3rd limited

3rd omniscient

Step-by-step explanation:

When a character who is directly involved in the action narrates the story, the narration is from the first-person point of view. The excerpt from “Sunday at Home” by Nathaniel Hawthorne matches this description.

In second-person narratives, the storyteller addresses a character in the story throughout the narration (often using the pronoun you). This is true of the excerpt from “The Haunted Mind” by William Faulkner.

Third-person narrators are observers who see the events in a story from a distance. Sometimes the narrator is close to a character in a story and lets the audience see the story from that character’s view point. This mode of narration is third-person limited. The excerpt from The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway matches this description

When the narrator speaks as if he knows all about every character and event, the point of view is third-person omniscient. The excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens matches this description.