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  2. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    Each of these sources provides different accounts of the same event, from the point of view of various first-person narrators. There can also be multiple co-principal characters as narrator, such as in Robert A. Heinlein's The Number of the Beast. The first chapter introduces four characters, including the initial narrator, who is named at the ...

  3. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    At one point Leopold Bloom saunters through Dublin musing on "Pineapple rock, lemon platt, butter scotch. A sugar-sticky girl shovelling scoopful of creams for a Christian brother. Some school treat. Bad for their tummies." Third-person narration: A text written as if by an impersonal narrator who is not affected by the events in the story.

  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. Point of view - Wikipedia

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    Point of view (literature) or narrative mode, the perspective of the narrative voice; the pronoun used in narration; Point of view (philosophy), an attitude how one sees or thinks of something; Point-of-view shot, a technique in motion photography; Point of view (pornography), a subset of gonzo pornography in which the performer also holds the ...

  6. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    Whereas the general assumption in literary theory is that a narrator must be present in order to develop a narrative, as Schmid proposes; [48] the act of an author writing his or her words in text is what communicates to the audience (in this case readers) the narrative of the text, and the author represents an act of narrative communication ...

  7. Narrative criticism - Wikipedia

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    Narrative theory is a means by which we can comprehend how we impose order on our experiences and actions by giving them a narrative form. According to Walter Fisher, narratives are fundamental to communication and provide structure for human experience and influence people to share common explanations and understandings. [ 1 ]

  8. 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 ...

  9. Category:Point of view - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Point of view" ... Third-person limited narrative; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; ...