What is it called when the narrator is all knowing?

What is it called when the narrator is all knowing?

[om-nish-ĕnt] An ‘all-knowing’ kind of narrator very commonly found in works of fiction written as third-person narratives. The omniscient narrator has a full knowledge of the story’s events and of the motives and unspoken thoughts of the various characters.

What is an unknown narrator called?

An unreliable narrator is a narrator whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in fiction and film, and range from children to mature characters. The term was coined in 1961 by Wayne C. Booth in The Rhetoric of Fiction. Sometimes the narrator’s unreliability is made immediately evident.

What is it called when the author narrator of the story is not a character in the story?

Point of view (POV) is what the character or narrator telling the story can see (his or her perspective). Many stories have the protagonist telling the story, while in others, the narrator may be another character or an outside viewer, a narrator who is not in the story at all.

What do you call the narrator outside the story who knows all things about the characters?

The omniscient narrator knows everything – even what the characters are thinking and feeling.

What is the voice of the narrator?

The narrator is the person who is communicating directly with the reader. Therefore, novels contain two types of voice: the characters’ voices AND the narrator’s voice. (Please, this is not true for most non-fiction books. In non-fiction, the narrator’s voice is often that of the writer).

Who is telling the story and to whom?

To begin with the basics, the standard narrator types are: first-person, where usually the protagonist tells his or her own story. third-person limited, where a narrator tells a story from one character’s point of view only, meaning that the audience/reader is not told of any events that this character is unaware of.