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: -A story told by a narrator who is not a character in the story is a third-person narrative.

Detailed explanation-3: -What is third person point of view? Third person is when the narrator tells the reader about the events of the story but the narrator is not a character within the story world. The narrator uses “He / She / It / They / Them” to refer to characters e.g. “They went to the shops”.

Detailed explanation-4: -You can often tell an omniscient narrator by the use of lines like: “He had no way of knowing that things were about to get much worse.” Or: “Waiting for her around the corner was the killer, looking for his tenth victim.” This is known as dramatic irony, and it’s used in many third person omniscient stories.