Which point of view describes the narrator outside the story and seeing events through one character, using he or she?

• A. Limited Third Person Point of View
• B. All-Knowing/Omniscient Third Person
• C. First Person
• D. Second Person

Answer: (A)

The main idea being tested is how a story is told through a narrator who stays outside the action but follows one character closely. In limited third person, the narrator describes events using he or she and reveals only what that one character knows, sees, and thinks. You get a focused view through that single character’s perspective, not the whole world.

This is different from the all-knowing, or omniscient, third person, where the narrator can reveal the thoughts and motives of many characters and can shift between them. It’s also different from first person, where the narrator is a character in the story telling it from their own I perspective, and from second person, which addresses the reader as you.

A practical look: if the narrative says she walked to the gate and wondered if he would arrive, and the narrator doesn’t reveal anyone else’s thoughts, that’s limited third person—outside the story, through one character, using she or he.