The Difference Between Third Person and Omniscient POV
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The Difference Between Third Person and Omniscient POVAnd how to decide which to use.Shaunta GrimesFollow4 min read·Jul 15, 2019 --
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Photo by Jakob Owens on UnsplashFirst some definitions. Third person point of view is a story told using the pronouns he, she, they.
If a story is told from only one point of view at a time and uses the he, she, they pronouns, it’s called Third Person Limited. There can be more than one point of view in this type of
story, but generally the switch happens at a scene or chapter break.
When the story is centered on one character’s point of view, the reader only gets to know what that particular character needs.
If you think of point of view as a lens, Third Person Limited is a relatively narrow view. Tightly focused.
Omniscient point of view is also third person, but it’s told from the point of view of a narrator who knows what’s going on in the heads of multiple characters.
Often this comes across as the story being told from the author’s point of view.
Sometimes there’s an actual character, such as in The Book Thief, where the narrator is death.
The main difference between limited and omniscient third person is how much the narrator knows.
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