Types of Narrative Point of View--from Moffett and McElheny

1.  Interior Monologue -- 1st person, train of thought or stream of consciousness

2.  Dramatic Monologue -- 1st person, narrator speaking to someone else; reader "overhears"

3.  Letter Narration -- 1st person, narrator writing a letter

4.  Diary Narration -- 1st person, narrator writing diary entries

5.  Subjective Narration-- 1st person, narrator seems unreliable, tries to get us to share their side, or assume values or views we don't share.

6.  Detached Autobiography -- 1st person, narrator is reliable, guides reader.  Narrator is main character, often reflecting on a past "self."

7.  Memoir or Observer Narration -- 1st person, narrator is observer rather than main participant; narrator can be confident, eye-witness or "chorus" (provides offstage or background information);  Narrator can be reliable or unreliable.

8.  Anonymous or Omniscient Narration, Single Character Point of View -- 3rd person narrator is generally reliable; narrator is omniscient and ubiquitous in terms of knowing all about ONE character in the story;  story presented from one character's vantage point.

9.  Anonymous or Omniscient Narration, Dual Character Point of View -- 3rd person, generally reliable narrator presents inner life of two characters; knows all there is to know about these two characters.

10.  Anonymous or Omniscient Narration, Multiple Character Point of View -- 3rd person narrator presents inner life, thoughts, actions of several characters

11.  Anonymous or Omniscient Narration, No Character Point of View -- 3rd person narrator, generally reliable, stays OUT of minds of characters; presents story in eyewitness or "chorus" account; narrator is not a confident, does not present characters' thoughts