third-person narration
He/she/they perspective
Third-person narration tells a story using "he," "she," and "they" rather than "I" or "you." The narrator stands outside the story, describing characters and events from a distance.
This perspective ranges from omniscient—knowing every character's thoughts—to limited, following one character's viewpoint: The novel shifts to third-person narration in its final chapters.
- omniscientUnlimited in awareness
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- perspectiveAttitude or spatial rendering
- viewpointWay of seeing things
- observerOne who perceives events
she said · camera eye · detached · authorial · voice · distant · objective · unreliable · limited · godlike · fly on the wall · hovering · prose · fiction · novel · once upon a time · chronicle · recount
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Story from speaker's viewpoint
interior monologue · stream of consciousness · first-person perspective · direct address
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