Point-of-View and Character Development

Flashback

• someone who tells a story

• a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene

• A conversation between two persons

Dialogue

• The story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie.

• A conversation between two persons.

• An open clash between two characters.

Monologue

• A dramatic speech by a single actor.

• Someone who tells a story.

• A mental position from which things are perceived.

Narrator

• A mental position from which things are perceived.

• An open clash between two opposing groups.

• Someone who tells a story.

Point of View

• The story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie.

• An open clash between two opposing groups.

• A mental position from which things are perceived.

Conflict

• A dramatic speech by a single actor.

• An open clash between two opposing groups.

• The story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie.

Plot

• A transition in a story to an earlier event or scene.

• The story that is told, as in a novel, play, movie.

• A dramatic speech by a single actor.

First Person

• The narrator talks to the reader (you, your)

• Told from the point of view of a character (I, we, me).

• The narrator is not part of the story (He, She, They).

Second Person

• The narrator talks to the reader (you, your)

• Told from the point of view of a character (I, we, me).

• The narrator is not part of the story (He, She, They).

Third Person

• The narrator talks to the reader (you, your)

• Told from the point of view of a character (I, we, me).

• The narrator is not part of the story (He, She, They).