How do you determine what the point of view is in literature?

Answer by  Hundchen (107)

Two standards determine literary point of view (POV). First, works describing setting or event from the "I" perspective are in first person POV. Works using "he" or "she" are in the third person. Then, if you learn what many characters think and feel, the narration is from an omniscient POV. If only one character's thoughts/feelings are known, it's limited POV.

Answer by  rubycantfail (74)

First person is "I"; second person is "you"; third person is "he/she. " Much more rarely, you'll find a story written in the first person plural ("We"). You might also see the terms "third person limited" and "third person omniscient"; this simply means, respectively, that the narrator only knows what one character's thinking, or knows everything.