Vocabulary: Theme + Point of View

a writing style where the narrator is one of the characters in the story, often using the pronouns "I, me, or my"

• third person

• first person

a writing style where the narrator speaks to the reader directly, often using "you."

• second person

• first person

a writing style where the narration is not done by one of the characters. The narrator often uses the pronouns "he," "she" or "it."

• third person

• first person

the position from which a narrator tells a story or a writer presents information. It may be first, second or third person.

• point of view

• theme

• main idea

the person who tells a story

• character

• villain

• narrator

a person, usually in a work of art

• villain

• character

• narrator

the central idea in a story or text; what a text is mostly about

• theme

• main idea

• point of view

plot is...

• the events in a novel, movie, etc.

• where the story takes place

• the main idea of the story

a message or lesson about life and human behavior that an author expresses in a text

• theme

• main idea

• point of view

a villain is...

• the main character in a story

• the evil character in a story

• the person telling the story