first-person
Narrator says "I"
First-person is the grammatical perspective where the speaker refers to themselves: I, me, we, us.
A first-person narrative tells a story from the narrator's own viewpoint: The novel is written in first-person.
In video games, a first-person shooter presents action through the player character's eyes.
Contrast with second-person and third-person.
One who fires weapons
- FPSVideo smoothness metric
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- cameraImage capturing device
- viewpointWay of seeing things
controller · immersive · avatar · gameplay · playthrough · POV · aiming · crosshair
One who tells events
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- point of viewOne's particular outlook
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- memoirWritten personal recollection
autobiography · diary · confessional · monologue · soliloquy · unreliable narrator · stream of consciousness · voice
Without intermediary
- directUndeviating or to guide
- immediateHappening without delay
- eyewitnessOne who saw events
- personalRelating to one's self
subjective · lived experience · perception · consciousness · awareness · sensory · embodied · participant
shooter
One who fires weapons
- FPSVideo smoothness metric
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- cameraImage capturing device
viewpoint · controller · immersive · avatar · gameplay · playthrough · POV · aiming · crosshair · field of view
narrator
One who tells events
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- point of viewOne's particular outlook
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
memoir · autobiography · diary · confessional · monologue · soliloquy · unreliable narrator · stream of consciousness · voice · testimonial
firsthand
Without intermediary
- directUndeviating or to guide
- immediateHappening without delay
- eyewitnessOne who saw events
personal · subjective · lived experience · perception · consciousness · awareness · sensory · embodied · participant · observer
I
First-person subject pronoun
my · we · us · our · ours · ourselves · pronoun · subject · speaker · self-reference
- gamingvideo games, buff, games, PlayStation 4, gameplay
- storytellingstorytelling, story, tale, narrative, narrator
- perspectivesviewpoints, viewpoint, point of view, POV, opinions
- narrationvoice-over, narrator, telling, POV, point of view
- visual stylespixel art, low poly, flat design, minimalist, photorealism
first-personthird-person
Grammatical category for others
second-person · third person singular · third person · second person
first-personfly-on-the-wall
Undetected observer status
biographical · impersonal · detached · objective · external