| A | B |
|---|
| Point-of-view | the perspective/ vantage point from which a story is told |
| First-person or participant | the story is told using the pronouns (I, me, my, we, us, our). |
| Stream of Consciousness (interior monologue) | a narrative where the author tells the story through an unbroken flow of thought and awareness |
| Third-person point of view | uses the pronouns (he, him, she, her, they, and them) to tell the story |
| Omniscient narrator | the author can enter the minds of all characters |
| Limited or selective narrator | the author only enters the mind of a single character, and knows everything about that character |
| Objective | the author does not enter a single mind, but instead records what can be seen and heard |
| Second person | uses pronouns: you, your, yourself. The narrator or speaker talks directly to his or her audience and directly involves the reader in the story. |
