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Narrative
Point-of-view: The perspective and voice from
which information and impressions are conveyed.
Determined by choice of narrator.:
First person:
One character serves as narrator, telling the narrative from their point of view. Includes words such as “I”, “me”, “mine”, “we”,
“our”, et cetera.
Third Person:
The story is told by an external voice observing the events. Third person
narration may be further divided into omniscient, limited omniscient, and objective
third person narrators (these terms, while problematic, are in general use).
Second Person: “You” are the narrator (rare). We might associate it with
videogames and “choose your own adventure” books, but it has also appeared in
more conventional literary works. One of Timothy Findley’s narrators in The Wars is a second-person narrator.
“You” are a researcher in the 1970s, examining the life of the protagonist that
is elsewhere in the novel narrated by third and first person narrators.)
Other experimental approaches to narration
exist, but you will encounter them less often.
