Literary Terms

Point of view: the vantage point from which an author tells a story

Third-person omniscient (he/she/they)--> The narrator knows everything, each thought and feeling in every character's head and the action that takes place in every scene.

                        Third-person limited point of view (he/she/they)--> Third-person narration stays within the confines of what is perceived and experienced by a single character

First person (I/we)--> The narrator tells the story only as s/he experienced it.

Structure: the planned framework of a piece of literature