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  2. Category:Third-person narrative novels - Wikipedia

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    This category contains articles about novels which use a third-person narrative structure; a mode of storytelling in which the narration refers to all characters with third person pronouns like he, she, or they, and never first- or second-person pronouns. The narrator can be omniscient or limited

  3. Narration - Wikipedia

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    While the tendency for novels (or other narrative works) is to adopt a single point of view throughout the entire novel, some authors have utilized other points of view that, for example, alternate between different first-person narrators or alternate between a first- and a third-person narrative mode. The ten books of the Pendragon adventure ...

  4. 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.

  5. Free indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Free indirect discourse can be described as a "technique of presenting a character's voice partly mediated by the voice of the author". In the words of the French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, "the narrator takes on the speech of the character, or, if one prefers, the character speaks through the voice of the narrator, and the two instances then are merged". [1]

  6. Focalisation - Wikipedia

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    In narratology, focalisation is the perspective through which a narrative is presented, as opposed to an omniscient narrator. [1] Coined by French narrative theorist Gérard Genette, his definition distinguishes between internal focalisation (first-person) and external focalisation (third-person, fixed on the actions of and environments around a character), with zero focalisation representing ...

  7. The Quincunx - Wikipedia

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    The pattern of narration of the 125 chapters - John Huffam, an omniscient narrator and a third person - exactly matches the colour pattern - white, black and red - of the 125 elements of the design. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] The mixture of first-person and detached narration is similar to the alternation between Esther Summerson's story and a neutral point ...

  8. Divisadero (novel) - Wikipedia

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    The novel starts with Anna as narrator, but some sections have a third person omniscient narrator. It is divided into three parts: One: Anna, Claire and Coop; Two: The family in the cart; Three: The house in Dému

  9. Linden Hills (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Linden Hills is a novel written by Gloria Naylor, originally published in 1985. [1] Naylor bases her allegory on Dante's Inferno. [2] The narrative is written from a third-person omniscient perspective, detailing different characters based on different traits that correspond with the different rings of Dante's interpretation of Hell.