And then he spotted it, poking out from the side of a dandelion. It was a four-leaf clover, perfectly proportioned. Lyle rubbed his eyes in disbelief. Upon reopening them, he carefully removed the four leaf clover and held it between two fi

The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening, but can't tell us the thoughts of the characters.

Instead of watching hours and hours of the Discovery channel, I found myself in my room staring at an empty TV screen. I knew that a new baby was really time consuming. How would my parents ever have time for both of us?

The little old man hobbled along the road. He sat on a park bench and watched people walk past him. He said hi to all of the children who walked by.

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"They paid us with cash and gold"

This point of view is used in sequence text structure. Giving directions, how to, etc.

The crowd cheered and the clocked ticked. We knew that it would all come down to this play. The coach nodded and I called for the snap. Reggie fired it at me and I ducked back into the pocket. The defense blitzed immediately but our linemen

The sound of traffic filled the street. I pressed the doorbell again. I wondered if the button worked. Could the person inside hear the sound of the buzzer over the traffic noises? Were they even home? I decided that it didn't matter. I che

The narrator (the voice that is telling the story) is a character who is part of the action and uses the first-person pronouns I, me, and my. The reader sees everything through this character's eyes.

Jeremiah squinted from the sun. He was thinking about the game. They could have won. He could have won the game for them. All he needed to do was catch the ball, but he didn't. He dropped it. His coach talked to him. "Jeremiah, we had a gre

The family swam towards shore as fast as they could. They were only five feet away from the sand when a shark began to swim towards them.