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This category contains articles about novels which use a second-person narrative structure; a mode of storytelling in which the audience is made a character. This is done with the use of second person pronouns like you .
For example, in the sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", there are two third-person referents, the fox and the dog. Thus, one of them has to be proximate and the other one has to be obviative, depending on which one the speaker considers more central to the story.
Attempts have been made at a classification of unreliable narrators. William Riggan analysed in a 1981 study four discernible types of unreliable narrators, focusing on the first-person narrator as this is the most common kind of unreliable narration. [6] Riggan provides the following definitions and examples to illustrate his classifications:
Name Definition Example Setting as a form of symbolism or allegory: The setting is both the time and geographic location within a narrative or within a work of fiction; sometimes, storytellers use the setting as a way to represent deeper ideas, reflect characters' emotions, or encourage the audience to make certain connections that add complexity to how the story may be interpreted.
Significant sections of the novel are written in second-person narrative. There are scenes in the book telling of the main character's time at university, which is named to be Stirling University, where Iain Banks was himself a student. The book is dedicated to experimental writer Ellis Sharp. [2]
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;
Biography: a written narrative of a person's life; an autobiography is a self-written biography. Memoir: a biographical account of a particular event or period in a person's life (rather than their whole life) drawn from personal knowledge or special sources (such as the spouse of the subject). Misery literature; Slave narrative. Contemporary ...
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