English Composition › Section D · Memoir and personal narrative › Topic D.3
Editing focus: characterization and point of view
In a personal narrative, readers meet everyone, including you, through the narrator's eyes. Editing for characterisation and point of view makes those people vivid and keeps the narrator's knowledge believable from the first line to the last.
In this topic
- Editing for people
- Persona: the narrator as a mask
- Direct and indirect characterisation
- Tools for bringing people to life
- Worked example: showing a character
- First-person point of view
- Third-person point of view
- Second-person point of view
- Worked example: one moment, three views
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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