VIEW a.) What kind of narrator / voice / speaker / persona / mask has the author created? First person (a participant, a voice using I and perhaps we)? Second person (a voice addressing the reader or auditor [or even an unidentified auditor of the text, e.g., in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”] as you)? Third person (an outsider, using he, she, it, they)? Also, look for shifts in point of view within a literary work. b.) What degree of knowledge does the narrator have? Omniscient? Limited-omniscient…
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