Point of View - How It Works

 

Point of View - a complex and specific vantage point. 

First person point of view is for writings such as diaries, monologues, memoir, personal essay, and lyric poetry.  (56)

In fiction first person point of view is the central narrator point of view. There is also peripheral point of view

Second person point of view uses "you" to speak directly to the reader creating intimacy. (57)

Third person point of view is told three different ways. (58)

omniscient - godlike narrator

limited omniscient -  is a narrator that goes into the mind of one or tow characters, but observes from the outside

objective -  a narrator that may know more than the person observing the scene