This document discusses point of view and different types of narrators in storytelling. It defines first person as telling the story from the perspective of a character within the story using pronouns like "I" and "me". Second person uses "you" to place the reader in the story. Third person narrators can be omniscient and know all characters' thoughts, limited to one character's perspective, or objective and unable to reveal characters' thoughts.

1. Title page 13 in your spiral notebook:
POINT OF VIEW
The perspective from which the story is told.

2. Narrator:
A speaker or character who tells a story.

3. First person:
The narrator is a character telling
the story who is part of the action.
Write these pronouns in the first person box:
I, me, we, my, mine, us, our, myself

4. Second person:
The narrator tells the story using
“you,” placing the reader into the
story.
Write these pronouns in the second person box:
you, your, yourself

5. Third person omniscient (all knowing):
The narrator knows and tells about
what every character thinks and feels.

6. Third person limited:
The narrator relates the inner
thoughts and feelings of only one
character. Everything is viewed
from this character’s perspective.

7. Third person objective:
The narrator isn’t part of the story.
The narrator cannot reveal what
characters are thinking or feeling.

8. Third person pronouns:
they, he, she, their, them, his, her,
him, it