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Point of View
Cougar English
Author~ A person who writes a
story. Narrator~ The character or
observer telling the story. Point of View~ The view point of
the story’s narrator. Stories can be told from several points of view.
Point of View
First Person
The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can’t tell us thoughts of other characters.
Third-Person LimitedThe narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters.
Omniscient The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters.
Point of View
First PersonThe narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can’t tell us thoughts of other characters. Pronouns The pronouns I, me, and my are just a few found within 1st person point of view.
Maverick
Handout Example
First Person Point of View
MaverickThe narrator is not a character in the story. He/she tells the story from the outside. Third person pronouns are used (he, she, their, they, them, it, etc.)
Third Person LimitedThird Person Omniscient
Third Person Point of View
Third-Person Limited : The narrator is
an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters.
Handout Example
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient: The narrator is an
all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters.
Handout Example
Third Person Omniscient
Literature Book Page 210
“A Boy and A Man”By James Ramsey Ullman