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Encyclopedia > Omniscient narrator

In literature, an omniscient narrator is a narrator who appears to know everything about the story being told, including what all the characters are thinking. Stories told by an omniscient narrator are usually narrated in the third person; in other words, no character is referred to as "I" or "you" except in dialogue. In some unusual cases, the reliability and impartiality of the narrator may be in question. An omniscient narrator offers the reader a bird-eye view about the story. Literature is literally an acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts. ... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ...


For a fuller description of the Third Person, omniscient narrator, go to narrator. The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ...


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Glossary L through O - Meyer Literature  (1929 words)
An omniscient narrator is an all-knowing narrator who is not a character in the story and who can move from place to place and pass back and forth through time, slipping into and out of characters as no human being possibly could in real life.
Omniscient narrators can report the thoughts and feelings of the characters, as well as their words and actions.
Narration that allows the characters’ actions and thoughts to speak for themselves is called neutral omniscience.
Short story writing, advice from a creative writing tutor, point of view 1 (660 words)
Here the story is ostensibly being presented by a narrator, in that we read 'he did this', or 'she did that', but the narrator's point of view is merged with that of the central character, so that everything in the story is seen through the central character.
Here we are not removed from Janet's subjective experience by being made aware of an omniscient narrator coming between her and us, giving us extra information such as that she is Scottish or that she has recently joined the hospital.
With this approach the narrator is 'I', and conveys the story through his or her own subjective experience of the events.
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