Point of View

The lens or person through which a story is told

• Tone

• Point of view

• Perspective

• Mood

How do you know that something is written in first person point of view?

• Pronouns like I, my, and him are used.

• The narrator is not in the story.

• The author is addressing the reader.

• Pronouns like I, my, and we are used.

A type of narrative point of view where the author uses pronouns like ''your" and "you."

• Second Person POV

• Third Person POV

• First Person POV

Which point of view do you see these signal words? he, she they, them, (character's names)

• First person

• second person

• third person

Which point of view is the narrator "all-knowing" on the thoughts and feelings of more than two characters?

• First person

• Third person limited

• Third person objective

• third person omniscient

Which point of view is when the narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of ONE character?

• Second person

• Third person objective

• Third person limited

• Third person omniscient

Third person limited differs from third person omniscient:

• because the point of view is fixed or limited to a particular POV

• because the reader can infer what other people feel and think only from what the viewpoint character observes

• A and B

• A only