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Narrator

By Mark Flanagan, About.com

Definition: The person telling the story, who determines the story's point of view. In a first-person narrative, the narrator is a participant in the story. A story told by a narrator who is not one of the story's participants is called third-person narrative. Far more rare, is the second-person narrative in which the narrator addresses the protagonist directly as "you."

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