Writing in first-person tells the story from the author's own point of view telling their version of events. The author uses pronouns like "I,we, me, etc."
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While it would be nice to sit down, all of the chairs are taken.
A Fire Ant, actually most ants have a pincer.
Both Victor and Captain Walton crave glory. They both long to make some valuable contribution to the human race and to be remembered forever, held up as heroes who accomplished something that no one ever had before.
The climax is the point in the story were something is revealed, shared, lost, occurred, etc.. It is the dramatic point in the story and is on the top of a plot diagram.