Generally, a first-person narrator brings greater focus on the feelings, opinions, and perceptions of a particular character in a story, and on how the character views the world and the views of other characters. Most narrators present their story from one of the following perspectives (called narrative modes): first-person, third-person limited, or (third-person) omniscient. A heterodiegetic narrator, in contrast, describes the experiences of the characters that appear in the story in which he or she does not participate. Such a narrator cannot know more about other characters than what their actions reveal. Intradiegetic narrators are of two types: a homodiegetic narrator participates as a character in the story. There is, for instance, a common distinction between first-person and third-person narrative, which Gérard Genette refers to as intradiegetic and extradiegetic narrative, respectively. Narrative perspective is the position and character of the storyteller, in relation to the narrative itself. A variety of different theoretical approaches have sought to define point of view in terms of person, perspective, voice, consciousness, and focus. Some stories have multiple narrators to illustrate the storylines of various characters at various times, creating a story with a complex perspective.Īn ongoing debate has persisted regarding the nature of narrative point of view. The narrator may merely relate the story to the audience without being involved in the plot and may have varied awareness of characters' thoughts and distant events. The narrator may be anonymous and unspecified, or a character appearing and participating within their own story (whether fictitious or factual), or the author themself as a character. Thus, narration includes both who tells the story and how the story is told (for example, by using stream of consciousness or unreliable narration).
Narrative technique: any of the various other methods chosen to help narrate a story, such as establishing the story's setting (location in time and space), developing characters, exploring themes (main ideas or topics), structuring the plot, intentionally expressing certain details but not others, following or subverting genre norms, employing certain linguistic styles, and using various other storytelling devices.Narrative tense: the choice of either the past or present grammatical tense to establish either the prior completion or current immediacy of the plot.Narrative point of view, perspective, or voice: the choice of grammatical person used by the narrator to establish whether or not the narrator and the audience are participants in the story also, this includes the scope of the information or knowledge that the narrator presents.The narrative mode, which is sometimes also used as synonym for narrative technique, encompasses the set of choices through which the creator of the story develops their narrator and narration: However, narration is merely optional in most other storytelling formats, such as films, plays, television shows, and video games, in which the story can be conveyed through other means, like dialogue between characters or visual action. Narration is a required element of all written stories ( novels, short stories, poems, memoirs, etc.), presenting the story in its entirety.
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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. Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. For other uses, see Narrator (disambiguation).
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