Point of View

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Point of View
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Basic Types of POV

• Participant POV (First Person)
• Major character?
• Minor character?
• Innocent-eye narrator?
• Stream of consciousness (interior monologue)
• Nonparticipant POV (Third Person)
• Omniscient
• Selective/limited omniscient
• Objective

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Purposes of the POV

• Participant (First Person)
• Nonparticipant (Third person)
• Omniscient
• Limited omniscient
• Objective

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Point of View