| Term | Definition |
|---|
| narrator | the speaker or the one from whom the story is told |
| point of view | to identify the narrator of a story, describing any part he or she plays in the events and any limitations placed upon his or her knowledge is to identify this |
| omniscient narrator | the narrator sees into the minds of all (or some) of the characters, moving when necessary from one to another |
| editorial | when a narrator add occasional comment or opinion |
| impartial omniscience | when a narrator is being non-judgmental |
| limited or selective omniscience | when a non-participatory narrator sees events through the eyes of a single character (major or minor) |
| objective point of view | the narrator does not enter the mind of any character but describes events from the outside |
| innocent or naive narrator | a participatory narrator who fails to understand all the implications of a story |
| stream of consciousness | a kind of selective omniscience: the presentation of thoughts and sense impressions in a life-like fashion - randomly |
| interior monologue | an extended presentation of a character's thoughts, not in the helter-skelter order of stream of consciousness |
| setting | the time and place of a story |
| locale | a term that refers to place |
| naturalism | fiction of grim realism, in which the writer observes human characters like a scientist studying ants, seeing them as the products and victims of environment and heredity |
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