Point of View Flashcards

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Point of View

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Perspective from which the story is told.

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First-person POV

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The narrator tells the story from his point of view and refers to himself/herself as I.

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Second-person POV

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Uses you, your and yours. Though the second-person point is rarely used as a narrative voice in fiction it does appear in songs, letters, features, and other forms of nonfiction writing.

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Third-person limited POV

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The point when the story is told by an outside narrator and identifies the characters as “he,” “she,” or “them” the reader does not discover anything more than can be seen, heard or known by the observer; thus, information is limited.

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