first-person account
Story from within
A first-person account is a narrative told by someone who directly witnessed or experienced the events described—using "I" or "we" rather than reporting secondhand.
Autobiographies, memoirs, and eyewitness testimony are first-person accounts.
Her first-person account of the accident contradicted the official report.
The form carries an assumption of authenticity, though not necessarily accuracy.
- memoirWritten personal recollection
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
- bearing witnessObserving and later attesting
- narrativeAccount of events
- eyewitnessOne who saw events
living witness · diary · war diary · journal · confession · recollection · storytelling · I · perspective · voice · memory · witness · intimate · vivid · raw · survivor · oral history · autobiography
- memoirsmemoir, memoirs, autobiography, autobiographies, life story
- autobiography titlememoir, diary, journal, life story, confession
first-person accounthearsay
Unverified secondhand information
secondhand account · rumor · gossip · oral tradition · summary
first, account, person, persons, personal, personally, personality, impersonal, personable