Drag the tiles to the correct boxes to complete the pairs.
Match the excerpt to the narrative technique it uses.
first-person narration
second-person narration
third-person narration
The "Red Death" had long devastated
the country. No pestilence had ever
been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was
its Avatar and its seal—the redness and
the horror of blood. There were sharp
pains, and sudden dizziness, and then
profuse bleeding at the pores, with
dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the
body and especially upon the face of
the victim, were the pest ban which shut
him out from the aid and from the
sympathy of his fellow-men. And the
whole seizure, progress and termination
of the disease, were the incidents of
half an hour.

(from “The Masque of Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe)

arrowRight
I was sick—sick unto death with that
long agony; and when they at length
unbound me, and I was permitted to sit,
I felt that my senses were leaving me.
The sentence—the dread sentence of
death—was the last of distinct
accentuation which reached my ears.
After that, the sound of the inquisitorial
voices seemed merged in one dreamy
indeterminate hum. It conveyed to my
soul the idea of revolution—perhaps
from its association in fancy with the
burr of a mill wheel.

(from “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe)

arrowRight
You sink down and muffle your head in
the clothes, shivering all the while, but
less from bodily chill than the bare idea
of a polar atmosphere. It is too cold
even for the thoughts to venture
abroad. You speculate on the luxury of
wearing out a whole existence in bed
like an oyster in its shell, content with
the sluggish ecstasy of inaction, and
drowsily conscious of nothing but
delicious warmth such as you now feel
again.

(from “The Haunted Mind” by Nathaniel Hawthorn

Question

Drag the tiles to the correct boxes to complete the pairs.
Match the excerpt to the narrative technique it uses.
first-person narration
second-person narration
third-person narration
The "Red Death" had long devastated
the country. No pestilence had ever
been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was
its Avatar and its seal—the redness and
the horror of blood. There were sharp
pains, and sudden dizziness, and then
profuse bleeding at the pores, with
dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the
body and especially upon the face of
the victim, were the pest ban which shut
him out from the aid and from the
sympathy of his fellow-men. And the
whole seizure, progress and termination
of the disease, were the incidents of
half an hour.

(from “The Masque of Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe)

arrowRight
I was sick—sick unto death with that
long agony; and when they at length
unbound me, and I was permitted to sit,
I felt that my senses were leaving me.
The sentence—the dread sentence of
death—was the last of distinct
accentuation which reached my ears.
After that, the sound of the inquisitorial
voices seemed merged in one dreamy
indeterminate hum. It conveyed to my
soul the idea of revolution—perhaps
from its association in fancy with the
burr of a mill wheel.

(from “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allan Poe)

arrowRight
You sink down and muffle your head in
the clothes, shivering all the while, but
less from bodily chill than the bare idea
of a polar atmosphere. It is too cold
even for the thoughts to venture
abroad. You speculate on the luxury of
wearing out a whole existence in bed
like an oyster in its shell, content with
the sluggish ecstasy of inaction, and
drowsily conscious of nothing but
delicious warmth such as you now feel
again.

(from “The Haunted Mind” by Nathaniel Hawthorn

Mercury · Answer

thoughts?

think about the pronouns you'd have to use in each of these narration types:

first-person narration: from the narrator's perspective, so "I" "me" "we" "us", etc.

second-person narration: from the reader's perspective, so "you" "yours," etc.

third-person narration: the narrator describes what is happening without referring to themselves or to the reader, so "he/she/they" "it", etc. the narrator describes things as an outside observer.