An example of the telling of a story in the grammatical first person, i.e. from the perspective of "I", is Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, which begins with "Call me Ishmael."
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First-person narratives can appear in several forms; interior monologue, as in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground See more

First-person narration is more difficult to achieve in film; however, voice-over narration can create the same structure.
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In autobiographical fiction, the first-person narrator is the character of the author (with varying degrees of historical accuracy). The narrator is still … See more

Since the narrator is within the story, he or she may not have knowledge of all the events. For this reason, the first-person narrative is often … See more

With a first-person narrative it is important to consider how the story is being told, i.e., is the character writing it down, telling it out loud, thinking it to themselves? And if they are writing it … See more

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