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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 31

Literary Forms, Genres, and Modes of Expression · Aesthetic and Rhetorical Strategies: Narrative and poetic techniques, and figures of speech · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Identify the point of view used in the following passage:
“You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, though the details are fuzzy.”

  1. Third-person point of view
  2. The limited point of view
  3. Second-person point of view
  4. First-person point of view

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Correct answer: (C) Second-person point of view

Explanation

The narrator addresses the character as “you”, which is second-person narration (this is the opening of Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City).