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  2. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    First-person narration is more difficult to achieve in film; however, voice-over narration can create the same structure. [15] An example of first-person narration in a film would be the narration given by the character Greg Heffley in the film adaptation of the popular book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

  3. Focalisation - Wikipedia

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    In narratology, focalisation is the perspective through which a narrative is presented, as opposed to an omniscient narrator. [1] Coined by French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, his definition distinguishes between internal focalisation (first-person) and external focalisation (third-person, fixed on the actions of and environments around a character), with zero focalisation representing ...

  4. Narration - Wikipedia

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    Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.

  5. Fiction-writing mode - Wikipedia

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    A fiction-writing mode is a manner of writing imaginary stories with its own set of conventions regarding how, when, and where it should be used.. Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse.

  6. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    This article about a literary genre is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  7. Screenwriters Taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Man vs. society Man vs. technology Noir Reunion films Man vs. self Lost innocence Coming of age POV: Primary limited Filmmaker omniscient Filmmaker omniscient Filmmaker omniscient Faux Primary omniscient Filmmaker omniscience Filmmaker omniscience Filmmaker omniscient Filmmaker omniscient

  8. Free indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]

  9. Omniscience - Wikipedia

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    The topic of omniscience has been much debated in various Indian traditions, but no more so than by the Buddhists. After Dharmakirti's excursions into the subject of what constitutes a valid cognition, Śāntarakṣita and his student Kamalaśīla thoroughly investigated the subject in the Tattvasamgraha and its commentary the Panjika.