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  2. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    The narrator is still distinct from the author and must behave like any other character and any other first-person narrator. Examples of this kind of narrator include Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. in Timequake (in this case, the first-person narrator is also the author). In some cases, the narrator is writing a ...

  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. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Point of view - Wikipedia

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    The Point of View of My Work as an Author, an 1859 philosophical autobiography by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard "Point of View" (short story), by Isaac Asimov published in 1979; Points of View, an essay by W. Somerset Maugham; Point of View, national magazine of the Documentary Organization of Canada

  6. Fiction writing - Wikipedia

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    Fiction writing is the composition of non-factual prose texts. Fictional writing often is produced as a story meant to entertain or convey an author's point of view. The result of this may be a short story, novel, novella, screenplay, or drama, which are all types (though not the only types) of fictional writing styles.

  7. Wikipedia:Describing points of view - Wikipedia

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    At Wikipedia, points of view (POVs) – cognitive perspectives – are often essential to articles which treat controversial subjects. Wikipedia's official "Neutral Point of View" (NPOV) policy does not mean that all the POVs of all the Wikipedia editors have to be represented. Rather, the article should represent the POVs of the main scholars ...

  8. Narrative - Wikipedia

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    It includes the scope of information presented or withheld, the type or style of language used, the channel or medium through which the story is presented, the way and extent to which narrative exposition and other types of commentary are communicated, and the overall point of view or perspective. An example of narrative perspective is a first ...

  9. List of writing genres - Wikipedia

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    Dystopian: fiction set in a society that the author views as being worse than the one in which they live in at the time of writing. Example: Brave New World (1932) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). Cyberpunk: juxtaposes advanced technology with less-advanced, broken down society. [9] Derivatives of cyberpunk include: Biopunk; Dieselpunk; Japanese ...