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  2. Grammatical person - Wikipedia

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    Phenomena. v. t. e. 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). A language's set of pronouns is typically defined by grammatical person.

  3. First-person narrative - Wikipedia

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    First-person narration is more difficult to achieve in film; however, voice-over narration can create the same structure. [15] An example of first-person narration in a film would be the narration given by the character Greg Heffley in the film adaptation of the popular book series Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

  4. 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. Narration is a required element of ...

  5. Clusivity - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In linguistics, clusivity[1] is a grammatical distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person pronouns and verbal morphology, also called inclusive "we" and exclusive "we". Inclusive "we" specifically includes the addressee, while exclusive "we" specifically excludes the addressee; in other words, two (or more) words that both ...

  6. Personal pronoun - Wikipedia

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    Personal pronoun. 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, they). Personal pronouns may also take different forms depending on number (usually singular or plural), grammatical or natural gender, case, and ...

  7. Third-person shooter - Wikipedia

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    Definition. An illustration of a protagonist whom a player controls and a tracking camera just behind, slightly above, and slightly facing down towards that character. A third-person shooter is a game structured around shooting, [1] and in which the player can see the avatar on-screen in a third-person view. [1][2] Third-person shooters are ...

  8. French personal pronouns - Wikipedia

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    French personal pronouns (analogous to English I, you, he/she, we, and they) reflect the person and number of their referent, and in the case of the third person, its gender as well (much like the English distinction between him and her, except that French lacks an inanimate third person pronoun it or a gender neutral they and thus draws this distinction among all third person nouns, singular ...

  9. Free indirect speech - Wikipedia

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    Free indirect speech is the literary technique of writing a character's first-person thoughts in the voice of the third-person narrator. It is a style using aspects of third-person narration conjoined with the essence of first-person direct speech. The technique is also referred to as free indirect discourse, free indirect style, or, in French ...