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Point of View Cougar English

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Point of View

Cougar English

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Third-Person Limited : The narrator is

an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters.

Handout Example

Third Person Limited

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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

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Literature Book Page 210

“A Boy and A Man”By James Ramsey Ullman