ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Omniscient means “all-knowing, ” and likewise an omniscient narrator knows every character’s thoughts, feelings, and motivations even if that character doesn’t reveal any of those things to the other characters.

Detailed explanation-2: -Third-person POV is a narrative perspective in which the narrator describes the events in the story without being present themselves. The narrator references the characters with their names and third-person pronouns. This perspective can lock the ‘camera’ onto the main character, but can also follow all characters.

Detailed explanation-3: -There are three types of third person point of view: third person limited, third person omniscient, and third person objective.

Detailed explanation-4: -Omniscient POV is considered god-like or all-knowing because the narrator has access to all aspects of the story, including each character’s knowledge, thoughts, feelings, actions and backstory.