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| first person | The narrator is a character in the story who can reveal only personal thoughts and feelings and what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He can’t tell us thoughts of other characters. |
| third-person objective | The narrator is an outsider who can report only what he or she sees and hears. This narrator can tell us what is happening, but he can’t tell us the thoughts of the characters. |
| third-person limited | The narrator is an outsider who sees into the mind of one of the characters. |
| omniscient | The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. |
| theme | A topic of discussion or work; a major idea broad enough to cover the entire scope of a literary work. |
| tone | The author’s attitude, stated or implied, toward a subject. |
| mood | The climate of feeling in a literary work. (reader |
| literary device | a tool used by the author to enliven and provide voice to the text |
