| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Narrator | the speaker or the one from whom the story is told |
| Point of view | to identify the narrator of a story, describing any part he or she plays in the events and any limitations placed upon his or her knowledge is to identify point of view |
| Omniscient narrator (third person omniscient) | the narrator sees into the minds of all or some of the characters, moving when necessary from one to the other |
| Limited or selective omniscient (third person limited) | When a non-participatory narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character |
| Objective Point of View | The narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside |
| Innocent or naive narrator | A participatory narrator who fails to understand all the implications of a story (ex. Huck Finn) |
| Stream of consciousness | A kind of selective omniscience: the presentation of thoughts and sense impressions in a life-like fashion |
| Interior monologue | An extended presentation of a characters thoughts, not in the helter-skelter order of stream of consciousness |
| Setting | The time and place of a story. (Locale is a term that refers to the place) |
| Naturalism | Fiction of grim realism in which the writer observes human characters like a scientist studying ants, seeing them as the products and victims of environment and heredity |
Combine with other sets
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