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Homodiegetic

1st Person

1st Person Plural

speaking on behalf of a collective, a collective group, or a community acts as a single. e.g. “we”.

often unreliable, frequently highlighting shared secrets or biases.

Autodiegetic

1st person but protagonist narrator

Allodiegetic

1st person but non- protagonist narrator

2nd Person

By placing the reader into the story, the author draws us in, but this perspective is also off-putting. e.g. “you”.

can cause discomfort that can lead to reflection.

Heterodiegetic

3rd Person Limited- the narrator is not a character in the story, so perspective is limited to one character’s thoughts and feelings. e.g. “he, she, it, they”.

Omniscient

3rd person all knowing figure.

Objective

Method of narration in which the narrator reveal only what can be seen and heard; there is no interpretation, commentary, or inclusion of characters’ private thoughts and feelings.

Stream of Consciousness

A method of narration in which the narrator presents a character’s thoughts in a seemingly random order, mirroring the way in which people think when associations many may be psychological rather than logical and memories may be mingled with current thoughts and experiences.

Dramatic monologue

1st Person conversation with reader

Metafiction

draws attention to itself as a story, where a fictional work self-consciously draws attention to its own construction, often blurring the lines between reality and fictions. (Breaking fourth wall).

Epistolary

constructed via letters and documents