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, … See more

First-person narratives can appear in several forms; interior monologue, as in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground; dramatic monologue, also in Albert Camus 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 … See more

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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 used for detective fiction, so that the reader and narrator uncover the case together. One traditional approach in this … See more

First-person narration is more difficult to achieve in film; however, voice-over narration can create the same structure.
An example of first-person narration in a film would be the … See more