Question 20 • CA-Common Core English Language Arts 11 B
I have committed to crossing my legs I hope carefully, ankle on knee, hands together in the lap of my slacks. My fingers are mated into a mirrored series of what manifests, to me, as the letter X. The interview room’s other personnel include: the University’s Director of Composition, its varsity tennis coach, and Academy prorector Mr. A. deLint. C.T. is beside me; the others sit, stand and stand, respectively, at the periphery of my focus. The tennis coach jingles pocket-change.
Answer
T
This excerpt uses first-person—the reader is led through the story by a character who is in the story and uses the pronouns “I” or “me.”
T
This excerpt uses third-person limited—the narrator is outside the story and only reveals the thoughts and feelings of one character.
T
This excerpt uses third-person—the reader is led through the story by a narrator who is outside the story, describing the action and characters.
T
This excerpt uses objective point of view—the narrator is outside the story and describes what is seen and heard about the other characters.
Explanation
The narrator refers to themself with “I” and “me,” as in “I have committed” and “to me.” This shows that the narrator is a character in the scene, telling it from a first-person point of view. The passage also describes the narrator’s own perspective, not an outside narrator’s view.
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