Narration Styles

[Monika1606]

Can you please list different narration styles in novels? For example: 1st person narrative, 3rd person, omniscient.

[JBI]

1st person - character narrates.
3rd person omniscient - a god-like voice narrates.
3rd person omniscient focalized - same as the above, though the point of view temporarily is replaced by the way a character or thing sees events in the story.
3rd person limited - 3rd person limited to the point of view of one, or a few characters, generally one at a time. Changing point of view can be termed character flipping, being that the focus goes from one to another.

2nd person point of view - only for choose your own adventure books really. The narration features the reader as the protagonist.

These of course often blend. some authors like to use a mix of all of these, though only after the growth in modernism. In the 19th century omniscient was the norm.

[Monika1606]

Thank you very much JBI,
I actually have to write about Jane Austen's narrative style and have to compare her's with other ones.:)

[DisPater]

3rd person omniscient focalized - same as the above, though the point of view temporarily is replaced by the way a character or thing sees events in the story.
3rd person limited - 3rd person limited to the point of view of one, or a few characters, generally one at a time. Changing point of view can be termed character flipping, being that the focus goes from one to another.


in a way, it is the same thing, both limited.

there is 1st person, 3rd person and 2nd person (very rare). the 3rd person is divided into 4 "categories".
monika1606, take a look here: http://www.uni-koeln.de/~ame02/pppn.htm#N3.2

[JBI]

Focalized and limited are essentially the same thing. The differences is one is an irregularity, for perhaps one paragraph, or one chapter, whereas the other one is constant.

[kelby_lake]

Thank you very much JBI,
I actually have to write about Jane Austen's narrative style and have to compare her's with other ones.:)

We're doing pride and prejudice, and our teacher was talking about something called 'over the shoulder narration'- where the author is hinting something to the reader about the characters, or having a biased opinion.

[Monika1606]

Thank you again for your input:)