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Knowledge
- The features of different narration styles, including first person, third person omniscient, and third person limited.
- Pronouns used by the author can indicate the narrator's point of view.
Skills
- Explain how first person, third person, omniscient and third person limited narration styles differ in literary texts.
Understanding
- In first person narration the narrator is a character in the story and is telling the story from their perspective. The pronouns I, me, we, or us are often used.
- In third person narration, the narrator is not part of the story and the characters never acknowledge the narrator's presence. The pronouns he, she, it, or they are often used.
- Third person narration can be limited or omniscient.
- An third person omniscient narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing and can tell the story from multiple characters' perspectives, while a third person limited narrator tells the story from only one character's perspective.
Vocabulary
- First person narration
- Third person narration
- Third person limited
- Omniscient
