Which of these sentences uses a first-person point of view?
a: alice and ray were calling me to join them at the newly opened sushi restaurant.
b: belle couldn’t decide whether to wear a formal coat or a casual shirt for dinner at jim's place.
c: "i am not a little boy," eric cried, as his mother looked with amusement at the five-year-old.
d: you gingerly step onto the ice, counting the seconds until gravity pulls you down.

A:Alice and Ray were calling me to join them at the newly opened sushi restaurant.

Explanation:

Narrative focus is the point of view from which the narrator tells the story. It can be first person, second person, third person or a combination of these options. The narrator may be a character in the story or it may be an abstract entity that the writer creates to narrate it.

In first person narrative focus, the narrator is a character who actively participates in the story or just retells it from his point of view. This narrator, who may or may not be the protagonist, shares his thoughts and emotions throughout the story, but does not know (and therefore cannot share) the thoughts and emotions of other characters. Accordingly, we can conclude that the letter "A" among the options posed in the question shows that the narrator is participating in the story as a character, this means that the story is using the third person narrative focus.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)