A narrator is the speaker or character who tells a story. The narrator may be either a character in the story or an outside observer. The writer's choice of narrator determines the story's point of view, which in turn determines the type or amount of information the writer can reveal. When a character in the story tells the story, that character is called a first-person narrator. The narrator may be a major character, a minor character, or just a witness. Readers see only what this character sees, hear only what this character hears, learn only what this character thinks, and so on. The first-person narrative may or may not be reliable. When a voice outside the story narrates, the story is said to have a third-person narrator. An omniscient, or all-knowing, third-person narrator can tell readers what any character thinks and feels. A limited third-person narrator, on the other hand, sees the world through one character's eyes and reveals only that character's thoughts.
the one who narrates, speaks, tells the story or poem
The narrator is the person who relates an account or story dealing with sequences of events and experiences, though not necessarily in strict order.
GM role in which she comments on the actions of player characters as a narrator might introduce a stage play. Anyone see Henry V
The person telling the story. May or may not be a character in the story. Be sure to separate the author from the narrator. They usually aren't the same person.
the one that tells the story. Note that the narrator is not the same thing as the writer. The narrator is a creation of the writer who tells the story.
The one who tells a story in writing or orally. Not identical to the author. The author creates and controls the narrator. Dr. Glas is the narrator of Dr. Glas; whereas Hjalmar Söderberg is the author.
someone who tells a story
a character who introduces or comments on the action
an efficient vehicle for introducing historical background and for bridging the gap between episodes a few months or years or an ocean apart
the voice of the speaker in a story
The person or voice telling the story. The narrator can be a character in the story or a voice outside the action. See Point of view
The teller of a story. The narrator may be the author or a character in the story through whom the author speaks. Huckleberry Finn is the narrator of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (See also narration and narrative.)
A person usually not part of the story who tells you things about the story. Narration can be added in editing.
The voice that in fiction describes the PLOT or action of a story. The narrator can speak in the first or third person, and depending on the effect the author wishes to create, can be very visible or almost invisible (an explicit or implicit narrator); he or she can be involved in the plot or be more distant See also POINT OF VIEW and speaker.
The player who portrays the non-player characters (NPCs), makes up the episode for the game, and serves as the referee.
narrare 'to tell'; ±ÔzªÌ): One who tells a story or narration.
The voice telling a story. The narrator, even when it is the first person "I," is not necessarily the author of the story.
One who narrates or tells, a story. A writer may choose to have a story told by a first person narrator, someone who is either a major or minor character. Or, a writer may choose to use a third person narrator, someone who is not in the story at all. Third person narrators are often omniscient, or "all knowing"- that is, they are able to enter into the minds of all the characters in the story.
the person (named or unknown) who is telling a story
The person or character that tells and explains a story.
one who tells the story; speaks directly to the audience.
and PERSONA: The narrator is the speaker in a work of prose. The persona is the speaker in a work of poetry; never to be confused with or assumed to be the poet, the persona may be an animal, an inanimate object, or any conceivable entity. The narrator of Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for example, is Huckleberry Finn; the persona of a poem by African American poet Thylias Moss, for example, is the innocent white son of a Ku Klux Klan member.
The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. It is one of three entities responsible for story-telling of any kind. The others are the Author and the Reader (or Audience).
