7468734645 | point of view | Vantage point which a story is told | 0 | |
7468734646 | voice | Acknowledged source of the story, speaker, person telling the story | 1 | |
7468734647 | credibility | believable; trustworthy | 2 | |
7468734648 | narrative | speech that tells a story | 3 | |
7468734649 | narrator | one who tells the story, first-person or third-person, limited ,omniscient | 4 | |
7468734650 | first person | narrator is a character in the story uses "I" and "me" | 5 | |
7468734651 | third person | narrator stands outside the story and describes the characters and action | 6 | |
7468734652 | third person limited | narrator describes events as only one character perceives them | 7 | |
7468734653 | third person omniscient | narrator knows everything about the characters and events and reveal details that the characters could not reveal | 8 | |
7468734654 | omniscient point of view | narrator who knows and tells all, including the inner thoughts and feelings, the reader has access to the perceptions and thoughts of all the characters in the story (also called unlimited focus) | 9 | |
7468734655 | limited point of view | narrator who presents the story as it is seen and understood by a single character and restricts information | 10 | |
7468734656 | objective point of view | narrator who presents a story in an impersonal way, describing external aspects of characters and never directly referring to emotions | 11 | |
7468734658 | persona | Voice who tells and structures the story and who may share the values of the actual author | 12 | |
7468734659 | genre | major category type of literature | 13 |
AP Lit - Point of View Flashcards
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