Where the author in the story, whether s/he tells the story as the first person or the third person.
The point of view can be classified in to:
The first person point of view
Omniscient point of view
Limited omniscient point of view
Dramatic or objective point of view
The first person point of view
The writer tells the story as if he /she gets involve in it.
The writer tells it from her/his point of view and always use personal pronoun I to address his/her self.
By using this point of view the writer wants to tells the reader that the story is real or at least looks like a true one.
The example of the first person Gulliver's Travels
Omniscient point of view
The writer tells the story as if he /she knows everything in it.
The writer could tells the story from every character ‘s view and could be from every places or setting.
The reader knows every events or information in the story directly from the writer.
Most of the story uses omniscient point of view.
Limited Omniscient /selected point of view
The writer tells the story from one of the characters in that story.
The writer only tells the story from the selected character point of view
The reader knows every events or information in the story from the selected character.
The example of Limited Omniscient is The story of an hour.
The writer tells the story as no one. The present of the author in the story is vague
The writer indirectly tells the story. S/he doesn’t give information about the feeling or the emotion of the characters. In other word the writer doesn’t give any judgments about the characters
The reader knows every events or information in the story mostly from the dialogue
The example of Dramatic/objective is …
The Killers
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