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The third-person narrative is narration in the third person. The participants in the narrative are understood to be distinct from the person telling the story and the person to whom, or by whom, it is read.

Third-person narrative is one of three possible modes of narration. The others are first-person narrative, in which the narrative voice is the protagonist of the narrative, referred to in the first person, as I or we, and (rarely) second-person narrative, in which the protagonist is rembered and said as second person, as "you". Third person can be omniscient or limited. It depends on how many thoughts you know from each character.

Contents 1 Third person, limited 2 Third person, objective 3 Third person, omniscient/dramatic 4 See also

Third person, limited

Third person, objective

The author does not enter a single mind, but instead records what can be seen and heard. This type of person is like a camera or a fly on the wall. This is used by journalists in articles—it only gives the facts, from one fixed perspective.

Third person, omniscient/dramatic

See omniscient narrator

See also

• Third-person interpretation
• Third-person limited omniscient
• Point of view (literature)