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ELA Drills, Beginner: Point of View 4. Which of the following is an example of first-person narration?
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- 00:04
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by first-person narration
- 00:07
sure you'll have to pitch a tent wait all night in the cold but really going [People waiting in a cue]
- 00:11
to be worth it okay here's our question which of following is an example of
- 00:16
first-person narration and here are potential and Jon Oliva Sam Houston
- 00:22
right well since you've been
Full Transcript
- 00:26
waiting in line so long we'll give you a hint first-person narration comes from [People waiting in line]
- 00:30
an insider's perspective so it generally involves pronouns like I and my so find
- 00:37
those pronouns then you found your answer [Man using metal detector on beach]
- 00:39
alright well based on our extremely good hint let's take a look at our options
- 00:43
and see which ones have the right pronoun starting with a the sense [Options appear]
- 00:47
doesn't have any problems at all it's a complete outsider's perspective giving a
- 00:51
third-person narration of what Jon's up to he might have bought himself a video [John appears at game zone store]
- 00:56
game but he didn't get us right to the answer so is gone now our feelings will
- 01:00
forgive as long as the advices to the next Super Smash Brothers party all [Boys celebrating at a party]
- 01:04
right how about B this one does have a pronoun you but it's not the right one
- 01:08
we use you when they're rating in the second person up first that means our
- 01:12
second attempt is second person to the second option bites the dust in second
- 01:16
how about C alright again we've got a pronoun kicking around in there they but [A bike appears on a beach]
- 01:22
alas it's not the kind we're looking for this is another case of third-person
- 01:25
narration so she has got to go and leave this would be final an answer that not
- 01:30
only has an eye but also a my it's an embarrassment of riches and it's also
- 01:34
definitely first-person narration at long last we have our answer as we can
- 01:38
only get out of this long it's like super smash with John oh the sacrifices [Men waving arms in the air]
- 01:42
we make for first-person narration
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