Points-of-view: First person - I, me Second person - you Third person - he, she, they
Your correct answer is: Always obey your parents, when they are present. This is the best policy in the long run, because if you don’t, they will make you. (Mark Twain, “Advice to Youth”) - Second person POV.
<span>The other excerpts:
After he had dried his face and not knowing what else to do dried it again, the boy turned around, wondering what next. The door was open. He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run, run! (Langston Hughes, “Thank You Ma’am”) - Third person POV.</span>
<span>They stopped running and stood in the great jungle that covered Venus that grew and never stopped growing, tumultuously, even as you watched it. (Ray Bradbury, “All Summer in a Day”) - Third person POV.
</span>The children lay out, laughing, on the jungle mattress, and heard it sigh and squeak under them resilient and alive. (Ray Bradbury, “All Summer in a Day”) - Third person POV.
<span>"In my time," said the grandmother, folding her thin veined fingers, "children were more respectful of their native states and their parents and everything else." (Flannery O’Connor, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”) - Third person POV.</span>
Robert Frost, the poet, thinks there is no need to have a wall between the two neighbours. Yet, his neighbour will keep it . He thinks a wall is a way , at least, to keep some distance from his neighbour. The wall is made of stones which sometimes fall or are missing and there he is mending it any time a stone is missing. Besides, he follows to the letter what his father used to say about walls and neighbours:"Good fences make good neighbours."
Her tears were a river flowing down her cheeks. As a river is so much larger than a few tears, the metaphor is a creative way of saying that the person is crying a lot. There are so many tears that they remind the writer of a river.
