Answer: first person → The narrator is a character and uses I or we.; second person → The reader is placed in the story as you.; third person limited → The narrator uses he, she or they and stays inside one character's thoughts.; third person omniscient → The narrator can move into the thoughts of many characters and knows more than any of them.

Answer: Version 3

Version 3 moves from Lena to the café owner to the bus driver and reports what each of them is thinking.

Answer: Version 1 feels more immediate and personal; Version 2 keeps a small distance from Lena

First person puts us inside the speaker's voice; third person limited still follows Lena's thoughts but through a narrator, creating slight distance.

Answer: The driver thought about the girl who usually ran for it

Lena cannot know what the driver is thinking three streets away. Only an omniscient narrator can report it.

Answer: It reveals that the narrator is trying to hide disappointment even from herself. First person lets the reader hear her inner voice correcting itself, so the short contradiction feels honest and a little humorous, and it builds sympathy.

Answer: Second person. The pronoun you places the reader inside the action, as if they are the character.

Answer: Third person omniscient. The narrator reports the thoughts of both Omar (counting the seconds) and Priya (certain he was laughing at her).

Answer: The final sentence moves into the sister's feelings (felt sorry that she had teased him). In third person limited the narrator should stay in Sam's head. A fix: "His sister was watching from the doorway, and for once she said nothing." (Sam can see her, but not read her mind.)

Answer: Limited narration restricts the reader to what one character knows, so clues and surprises can be withheld naturally. An omniscient narrator could see into the guilty character's mind, which would make it harder to keep the secret.

Answer: A narrator whose account the reader has reason to doubt, because they are biased, mistaken, hiding something or lack understanding. Example: "Everyone at the party loved my speech, even the people who left halfway through."

Answer: I pretended to read my book, but I was listening to every word the two girls behind me said.

Answer: Jun's hands were cold, but he wasn't going to let them see him shiver.

Answer: Model: Lena kicked a pebble into the gutter and watched it disappear down the drain. (Any sentence that stays with Lena's actions, senses or thoughts and shows rather than names a feeling.)

Model answer: First person: I turned the paper over and read the first question. Then I read it again. The words were English, I was sure of that, but they refused to line up into anything I knew. My pen hovered. Around me, everyone else had already started writing, the scratch of their pens as loud as rain on a tin roof. Breathe, I told myself. Skip it. Find one you can do. I flipped the page and there it was: a question I had worked through twice last week. My shoulders came down from around my ears. Third person omniscient: Noah turned the paper over and read the first question twice, his pen frozen above the page. Two rows ahead, Mia was already halfway down her first answer, privately sure she had misread the instructions. At the front, the supervisor noticed the boy who had not yet written a word and wondered whether to walk past his desk. She decided against it. Noah, unaware of any of this, skipped to the next page and almost smiled. Reflection: I prefer the first-person version because the reader shares the panic and the relief from the inside. The omniscient version is calmer, but it shows that everyone in the room is quietly worried, which adds a surprising layer.