Title page 13 in your spiral notebook:

POINT OF VIEW

The perspective from which the story is told.

Narrator:A speaker or character who tells a story.

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

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

Third person omniscient (all knowing):The narrator knows and tells about

what every character thinks and feels.

Third person limited:The narrator relates the inner

thoughts and feelings of only one character. Everything is viewed

from this character’s perspective.

Third person objective:The narrator isn’t part of the story.

The narrator cannot reveal what characters are thinking or feeling.

Third person pronouns:

they, he, she, their, them, his, her, him, it