AP Lit - Point of View Flashcards

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