Narrative Style.

 Narrator Styles 

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Narrative voice is another crucial aspect of storytelling. Here are the more common/used  narrative voice styles:

1. **First-person narrator**: The narrator is a character within the story, telling it from their own perspective using "I" and "me".

2. **Third-person narrator**: The narrator is outside the story, describing the characters and events using "he", "she", and "they".

3. **Limited narrator**: The narrator only has access to the thoughts and feelings of a single character.

4. **Omniscient narrator**: The narrator has knowledge of all characters' thoughts, feelings, and motivations, as well as the ability to comment on the story.

5. **Unreliable narrator**: The narrator is not trustworthy, providing misleading or biased information.

6. **Objective narrator**: The narrator describes events without taking a side or expressing opinions.

 

7Stream-of-consciousness narrator**: The narrator presents a character's thoughts and feelings in a fluid, unstructured manner.

These narrative voice styles can greatly influence how the reader experiences the story.

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Here are five common types of narrative styles:

1. Descriptive narrative: This style focuses on creating a vivid atmosphere and setting for the story, often using sensory details to transport the reader.

2. Viewpoint narrative: This style is used to show the reader events through the eyes of a character, which can help the reader understand the character's thoughts and feelings.

3. Historical narrative: This style is used to recount events that happened in the past, often used in genres like biography, autobiography and historical fiction.

4. Linear narrative: This style is used to tell events in the order they occurred, often used in realist fiction to create a sense of a life unfolding.

5. Nonlinear narrative: This style is used to tell events out of chronological order, often used to create suspense or represent the narrator's emotional state or consciousness.

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Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about things that happened in the past. There are four narrative tenses ¹ ²:

- Past simple: used to talk about a certain action or event that took place at a specific point in the past.

- Past continuous: used to talk about an action or event that was in progress at a specific point in the past.

- Past perfect: used to talk about an event or action that was completed before a certain point in the past.

- Past perfect continuous: used to talk about an event or action that was happening in the past and continued up until a certain point in the past.