Point of View
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- Third person
- talks ABOUT the characters
- Two kinds of third-person point of view
- limited and omniscient
- The way to remember 3rd person omniscient is to remember
- the narrator is like a "god" who can read everyone's mind
- Three commonly used points of view used in writing
- first person, omniscient third person, and limited third person
- Point of view
- the perspective, or vantage point, from which a story is told
- Omniscient third-person
- when the narrator knows and tells about what each character feels and thinks
- First person pronouns
- I, me, my, mine, ours
- Limited third-person
- when the narrator relates the inner thoughts and feelings of only ONE main character
- Third-person pronouns
- he, she, they
- First person point of view
- when the narrator is a character in the story and refers to himself or herself with the pronoun "I"