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limited third personomniscient narrator
Storyteller with unlimited knowledge
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Related — narrator (One who tells events); viewpoint (Way of seeing things); perspective (Attitude or spatial rendering); close · intimate · shoulder · character · thoughts · she said · focal · omniscient · restricted · interiority
narrative access/knowledge scopelimited third person ≠ omniscient narrator Storyteller with unlimited knowledge; head-hopping
grammatical personlimited third person ≠ first person Grammatical self-reference perspective; first person narrator · second person
narrative distance/intimacylimited third person ≠ fly-on-the-wall Undetected observer status; stream of consciousness · interior monologue
Word data: Linguabase (CC0) · www.idea.org/words/limited_third_person