Question

An elderly man, with very marked features and iron-grey hair, sat in the fifth row of the stalls, on the right-hand aisle. He was a bony man, and the people behind him noticed him and thought he looked strong. He had heard Bonanni in her best days and many great lyric sopranos from Patti to Melba, and he was thinking that none of them had sung the mad scene better than Cordova, who had only been on the stage two years, and was now in New York for the first time. Cordova herself was altogether intent on what she was doing and was not thinking of her friends, of Lushington, or Logotheti, nor of the bony man in the stalls; certainly not of society, though it was richly represented by diamonds in the subscriber's tier. Which point of view is used in the passage?

Answer 1

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Read the passage from “A Gold Slipper” by Willa Cather The Gold Slipper. An elderly man, with very marked features and iron-grey hair, sat in the fifth row of the stalls, on the right-hand aisle. He was a bony man, and the people behind him noticed him and thought he looked strong. He had heard Bonanni in her best days and many great lyric sopranos from Patti to Melba, and he was thinking that none of them had sung the mad scene better than Cordova, who had only been on the stage two years, and was now in New York for the first time. Cordova herself was altogether intent on what she was doing and was not thinking of her friends, of Lushington, or Logotheti, nor of the bony man in the stalls; certainly not of society, though it was richly represented by diamonds in the subscriber's tier.

Which point of view is used in the passage?

- first-person

- omniscient third-person

- limited third-person

Answer: - omniscient third-person.  

Explanation:

The third-person omniscient is a point of view in which the narrator acknowledges the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters, making it an appropriate literary device to add character development.

In this example, the narrator provides information on both the past and the thoughts of several characters, showing that the point of view is an omniscient third-person.  

Answer 2

They are trying to explain that his size didnt matter but how people saw him did