Point of View

When the story is revealed by a narrator who is within the story

• first person

• second person

• third person

Uses the pronoun "you" to address the reader directly

• third person

• first person

• second person

Narrator "knows all" and narrates the thoughts and feelings of many or all of the characters in a story

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• third person objective

Perspective from which an author presents conflicts, characters, and events in a story

• Narrator

• Point of view or narrative perspective

• Persona

Person created by the author to tell the story; also called the narrator

• Author

• Antagonist

• Persona

Narrator only describes character's actions and dialogue but does not reveal any character's thoughts or feelings

• Third person objective

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

Narrator tells the story from one character's perspective, usually the main character

• Third person objective

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

I, me, we, us

• Second person

• First person

• Third person

You, yours

• third person

• second person

• first person

he, she, it, him, her, they, them

• first person

• second person

• third person