"literature, e.g. novels or short stories, describing imaginary people and events"
"fiction." The Penguin English Dictionary. London: Penguin, 2007. Credo Reference. Web. 18 January 2012.
FIRST PERSON - When the narrator speaks using "I" and describes the interior thoughts of that narrator and is limited to descriptions of events through that narrator's viewpoint. For instance, "When I flew around the world in a hot-air balloon the one thing I kept thinking again and again was how cool I was."
SECOND PERSON - A less common point-of-view, it is when the narration uses "you." For instance, "You want to get out of bed but you know how cold it is in the room. You lay there, having already turned the alarm off, willing to risk falling back to sleep and missing your first day at the popsicle factory."
THIRD PERSON - There are a lot of options when it comes to third-person point of view (i.e. an omniscient narrator) but they all use "he/she/they." For instance, As Fred walked down the street he purchased a bouqet of flowers for no reason from the street vendor and gave them to the first person he saw."
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In my opinion it is not the writer's job to solve such problems as God, pessimism, etc; his job is merely to record who, under what conditions, said or thought what about God or pessimism. The artist is not meant to be a judge of his characters and what they say; his only job is to be an impartial witness. I heard two Russians in a muddled conversation about pessimism, a conversation that solved nothing; all I am bound to do is reproduce that conversation exactly as I heard it. Drawing conclusions is up to the jury, that is, the readers. My only job is to be talented, that is, to know how to distinguish important testimony from unimportant, to place my characters in the proper light and speak their language. --Anton Chekhov
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