Describe the point of view that occurs in "the occurrence at owl creek bridge." the point of view is third person limited and in the first part focuses objectively on the actions of the characters rather than their thoughts, but as farquhar gets closer to death, the reader shares his final thoughts. at first the point of view is omniscient and focuses on the thoughts of the soldiers who are about to kill this man, but as farquhar gets closer to death, the point of view switches to first person, and the reader shares his final thoughts. o at first the point of view is first person and focuses on farquhar's feelings about death, but as farquhamets closer to death, the point of view switches to third person limited and focuses on the final preparations of the soldiers.

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.