person or character telling the story narrative essay essay that tells a story, either a made-up one to illustrate a point, or, more commonly, a true telling of actual personal or historical events nonfiction prose that presents actual happenings; examples include the essay (a brief presentation of ideas or views on a subject), biography (the story of a person's life, written by someone else), and autobiography (the story of a person's life written in his/her own words)
In any text, there is at least one narrator Some of the differences in types of narrators can be found in whether or not that "person" is a part of the story or not, omnipresent or omniscient, speaks of themselves or attempts to erase their own presence and disappear from the reader's consciousness There can be multiple narrators, but for every narrator there is a narratee who exists at the same diegetic level Related terms: Reliable, Unreliable Related concepts: Distance
The implied voice relating the characters and the action of the plot to the implied reader The narrator can be a character, which makes that narrator involved If the narrator is not a character and takes a position of revealing information to the reader, that narrator is omniscient An omniscient narrator can either take the reader inside the consciousness of the character, or is privileged, or can remain distant, or not privileged A narrator that seems to be biased, misleading, provides faulty information or otherwise is not telling the whole story is said to be unreliable The implied person to whom the narrator is speaking is known as the narratee See Narrative Point of View, Narrative
{i} person who narrates; storyteller; one who reads narration or descriptive text in between the acts of a play (also narrater)
and narratee, the persona who tells the story and his/or audience In Acts they would be "Luke" and Theophilus Both are constructed by the real author, who in this case may have been anonymous
the person who tells the story in the text; it may be told directly by the author (which is known as 'third person' narrative) or it may be told through the mouth of one or more of the characters involved (which is known as 'first person' narrative)