• Author: the person writing the story.
• Narrator: definition: the voice telling the story.
• Major Points of View: First-person, third-person omniscient, third-person limited.
• vantage point from which a writer narrates, or tells a story.
• Note: the terms point of view and narrator can be used interchangeably.
• first person: The narrator is a character in a story, using the first person pronoun I.
• readers see and hear only what the narrator sees and hears.
• concerns: Does she always know what is going on?
• does she always tell the truth?
• Third-Person Omniscient: the narrator plays no part in the story, but can tell us what all the characters are thinking  and feeling, as well as what happens in the past and future.
• thinks of “Once upon a time...”
• narrator is all-knowing, god-like or Santa Claus- is) figure.
• Third person Limited: the narrator, who plays no part in the story, zooms in on the thoughts and feelings of one character.
• Evaluating point of view
• Who is telling the story?
• Voice
• voice=diction[word choice] + language + tone.a
• Tone: the attitude a writer takes towards a subject, characters or the reader.