1. The relationship of the storyteller to the story
Point of View:
The relationship of the storyteller to the story

2. Point of View: First person Second person Third person limited
Third person omniscient
Third person objective

3. First Person:
the narrator, a character in the story, refers to himself or herself as “I,” “me,” “myself,” or similar words.

4. I walked up to the door of the dark, ominous castle
I walked up to the door of the dark, ominous castle. I heard strange noises from within the castle, yet I was compelled to continue on. Though I could hardly believe I was doing it, I turned the knob of the door and slowly, cautiously entered.

5. A story in which you the reader are made a character.
Second Person:
A story in which you the reader are made a character.

6. You walk up to the dark, ominous castle
You walk up to the dark, ominous castle. You hear rumblings, whispers from within, but continue on anyway. Your curiosity is getting the better of you, and it draws you on to either satisfaction or doom. Though rational thought and common sense tell you otherwise, you turn the knob, edge open the door, and slowly, cautiously enter.

7. Third Person Limited:
The story is told by a detached narrator (one who is not a character in the story), but we the readers are only given insight into the mind of a single character.
Think of the narrator as a movie camera following only the life of one character in a story, and when other characters are not immediately present, we know nothing of their actions or whereabouts.

8. Creeping up to the door, he heard strange noises radiating from within
Creeping up to the door, he heard strange noises radiating from within. Though frightened, he continued on. Still unsure, and incredulous that he might actually be doing this, he turned the knob and slowly, cautiously entered.

9. Third Person Omniscient:
The story is told by a detached narrator who knows the thoughts, feelings, actions, and whereabouts of everyone and everything in the story at all times.

10. Creeping up to the door, he heard from within the castle the strange sounds of the tortured souls which haunted it. He knew nothing of the folkloric legends surrounding this place, and he quickly dismissed the howlings as a noise merely created by the wind rustling through the old mortar bricks and rotted wood. Slowly, cautiously, he turned the knob, oblivious to the disaster awaiting him beyond the door.

11. Third Person objective:
also referred to as the camera's eye because in this point of view the narrator describes only what can be seen, not what is going on inside the heads of the characters.
The narrator also makes no judgments about characters or their actions, so characters are not described as sad, happy, or annoying, for example. Those judgments could only be inferred by the reader based upon the actions or dialogues of characters.