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Point of View ■ The angle from which a story is told (The angle depends upon the narrator, or person telling the story.)

• First-Person Point of View This means that one of the characters is telling the story: “Linda is my older sister, beautiful and popular.”
• Third-Person Point of View In third person, someone from the outside of the story is telling it: “Linda is her older sister, beautiful and popular.” There are three third-person points of view: omniscient, limited omniscient, and camera view. (See the illustrations.)

Protagonist ■ The main character or hero in a story

Setting ■ The place and the time of a story

Theme ■ The message that is directly or indirectly revealed in a story

Tone ■ The writer’s attitude toward the subject