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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. Book - Wikipedia

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    The writing style used in these works is informative; the authors avoid opinions and the use of the first person, and emphasize facts. An almanac is a very general reference book, usually one-volume, with lists of data and information on many topics.

  4. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    A language's set of pronouns is typically defined by grammatical person. First person includes the speaker (English: I, we), second person is the person or people spoken to (English: your or you), and third person includes all that are not listed above (English: he, she, it, they). [1]

  5. Reference work - Wikipedia

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    The writing style used in these works is informative; the authors avoid opinions and the use of the first person, and emphasize facts. Indices are a common navigation feature in many types of reference works. Many reference works are put together by a team of contributors whose work is coordinated by one or more editors, rather than by an ...

  6. First person - Wikipedia

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    First person or first-person may refer to: First person, a grammatical person. First-person narrative, use of first person in a story; First person (ethnic), indigenous peoples, usually used in the plural; First person, a gender-neutral, marital-neutral term for titles such as first lady and first gentleman; First-person view (radio control), a ...

  7. Epiphany (literature) - Wikipedia

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    The story, narrated in the first person, is about a boy and his friend Mahony taking a day off from school to seek adventure in their dull lives. The boy has sought escape from his daily routine in stories of the Wild West and American detective stories and in make-believe warfare with his schoolmates. However, "The mimic warfare of the evening ...

  8. Essay - Wikipedia

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    In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning. The Frenchman Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to characterize these as "attempts" to put his thoughts into writing. Subsequently, essay has been defined in a variety of ways.

  9. Personal pronoun - Wikipedia

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    For example, Tok Pisin has seven first-person pronouns according to number (singular, dual, trial, plural) and clusivity, such as mitripela ("they two and I") and yumitripela ("you two and I"). [4] Some languages do not have third-person personal pronouns, instead using demonstratives (e.g. Macedonian) [5] or full noun phrases.