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  2. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), and others (third person).

  3. Narration - Wikipedia

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    Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.

  4. Clusivity - Wikipedia

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    The inclusive form is derived from the second-person pronoun and the first-person pronoun. The exclusive form is derived from the first-person singular and the third-person plural. There are significant dialectal and diachronic variations in the exclusive form. English creole: Lakota: uŋ(k)- uŋ(k)- ... -pi Neither The inclusive form has a ...

  5. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    Third-person narration: A text written as if by an impersonal narrator who is not affected by the events in the story. Can be omniscient or limited, the latter usually being tied to a specific character, a group of characters, or a location. A Song of Ice and Fire is written in multiple limited third-person narrators that change with each chapter.

  6. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    With a first-person narrative it is important to consider how the story is being told, i.e., is the character writing it down, telling it out loud, thinking it to themselves? And if they are writing it down, is it something meant to be read by the public, a private diary, or a story meant for one other person?

  7. Second person - Wikipedia

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    Second person can refer to the following: A grammatical person (you, your and yours in the English language) Second-person narrative, a perspective in storytelling;

  8. English personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    The English personal pronouns are a subset of English pronouns taking various forms according to number, person, case and grammatical gender. Modern English has very little inflection of nouns or adjectives, to the point where some authors describe it as an analytic language, but the Modern English system of personal pronouns has preserved some of the inflectional complexity of Old English and ...

  9. Personal pronoun - Wikipedia

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    Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical personfirst person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it). Personal pronouns may also take different forms depending on number (usually singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and formality.