ENGLISH NOTES

OMNISCIENT POINT OF VIEW

• Narrator is not a character.
• Omniscient means all-knowing
• Able to tell everything about every character.
• Includes how they think and feel.

FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW

• Is a character in the story who talks to us.
• Very personal view of what is happening from a first-person narrator.
• Only know what he or she thinks and experiences
• Always question whether a first-person narrator is credible or can be trusted.
• An unreliable narrator is biased and does not tell the truth.

THIRD-PERSON LIMITED

• Zooms in one just one character, but talks about the character in third-person.
• With that point of view, they share one characters reactions to everything that happens in the story
• The information about the others is limited.

TONE

• A stories tone is usually described in one word.
• Tone is the attitude a speaker or writer takes toward a subject, character, or audience.
• If you change a stories point of view, you change the tone.

VOICE

• Voice refers to the writers use of language.
• It is created by the tone.
• You can often identify the author by the voice of the story.