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Sources of INFORMATION (misc.) > Different Types of Narrative Mode (per Wiki)

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Joy H. (joyofglensfalls) | 16697 comments It's interesting to be aware of the different types of narrative mode as we read.

Wiki says that: "Third-person singular (he/she) is overwhelmingly the most common type of third-person narrative".

Below is a link to Wiki's page on "Narrative Mode":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrativ...
Wiki's outline is below:

1 Narrative point of view
1.1 First-person view
1.2 Second-person view
1.3 Third-person view
1.4 Alternating person view

2 Narrative voice
2.1 Stream-of-consciousness voice
2.2 Character voice
2.2.1 Unreliable voice
2.3 Epistolary voice
2.4 Third-person voices
2.4.1 Third-person, subjective
2.4.2 Third-person, objective
2.4.3 Third-person, omniscient

3 Narrative tense
3.1 Past tense
3.2 Present tense
3.3 Future tense

4 Other narrative modes
4.1 Fiction-writing mode
4.2 Other types and uses


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