NARRATOR AND VOICE

3 MAIN TYPES OF NARRATOR

• Omniscient
• First Person
• Third Person

OMNISCIENT

• Narrator is not a character in the story
• Never refers to himself or herself
• Omniscient means "all knowing"
• Tell us every characters thoughts, feelings, and actions

FIRST PERSON

• Character in the story who talks to us
• Get a very personal view
• We ONLY know what he or she thinks
• And what they choose to tell us

THRID PERSON

• Storyteller zooms in on one character
• But talks about the character in third person
• Using he or she
• We share one characters reactions to everything
• But what we know about the other characters is limited

VOICE

TONE

• The attitude a speaker or writer takes toward a subject
• If you change the point of view in the story
• Your tone might change as well

VOICE

• Refers to the writers language
• You can often identify the author of a piece of writing
• Voice can may change over time but it mostly stays the same