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Function of POV: Fiction/Drama Practice Test

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In the following original drama excerpt, attend to how the playwright uses overlapping speech to control perspective.

A crowded family dining room. Plates clatter.

AUNT: More potatoes?

MILES: No, thank you.

DAD: You’re too thin.

MOM: He’s fine.

MILES begins to speak, but the adults continue over him.

MILES (to the audience, as the others talk): Watch: I’ll disappear in a room full of my own name.

DAD: Miles, you listening?

MILES (aloud): Yes.

MILES (to the audience): That word is my best trick.

Which choice best explains the function of the perspective created by MILES’s “to the audience” lines amid the overlapping dialogue?

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