ENGL 91C Study Guide - Final Guide: Confidence Trick, Ergodic Literature, Socalled
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The position of the narrator in relation to the story being told; first-person, second-person, third-person, alternating. The temporal relationship between the narrator and the events of the story; past, present, historical present, future. The way in which the story is told. Third-person narrator: third-person omniscient versus limited, objective or. First-person narrator. (can have other variations such as second-person narrator, but this is rare. ) The person through whose eyes the story is told. Told in third person (they, he, she, etc. ) with more knowledge than the characters themselves know (allows for dramatic irony, predicting things the characters can"t know, etc. Told in third person (they, he, she, etc. ) with knowledge only stemming from certain characters (often only one character) throughout the story. Sees everything as though through a camera eye, no interiority/no glimpse into the mind of any character, can only see what you would see if someone took a video of the scene and played it back for you.
