First Person

First-person narrative is a narrative mode where a story is narrated by one character at a time, speaking for and about themselves. First-person narrative may be singular, plural or multiple as well as being an authoritative, reliable or deceptive "voice" and represents point of view in the writing.

The narrators explicitly refer to themselves using words and phrases involving "I" (referred to as the first-person singular) and/or "we" (the first-person plural). This allows the reader or audience to see the point of view (including opinions, thoughts, and feelings) only of the narrator, and no o
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
The Fault in Our Stars
The Handmaid's Tale
The Great Gatsby
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
Jasper Fforde
I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!
Jasper Fforde, Lost in a Good Book

Saying you're the 'first person' to do anything in an indigenous country is insulting.
Saying you're the 'first person' to do anything in an indigenous country is insulting. ...more
Gayle Kabloona

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