Which of these excerpts from the time traveler’s guide to elizabethan england uses the second-person point of view?

a. hills might feature in an elizabethan writer’s description of a county because of their potential for sheep grazing.

b. those things that elizabethans take for granted are precisely what you will find most striking.

c. before this, they do not need such a word, for they do not see a “landscape” as such.

d. shakespeare does not use the word “landscape” at all; he uses the word “country”.

The correct option is B.

The excerpt in option B, which was taken from The Time Traveler’s Guide to Elizabethan England is the one that uses the second-person point of view. Generally, point of view has to do with the way an author tells a story. A story can be told form three different perspectives, which are first, second and third person point of view.

A second person point of view refers to a manner of telling a story in which the narrator relates the story to another character by using the word 'YOU'. The narrator speaks to the person directly. A very simple method that one can use to quickly identify statements that use second person point of view is to look for these words: 'YOU', YOUR and YOURS.

Examples of statements that use second person point of view are giving below:

1. You have to study very well in order to have a distinction in that subject.

2. When you are ready to go out make sure you lock the front door at the back.

3. God will bless you and yours.

Those things that Elizabethans take for granted are precisely what you will find most striking . . .