ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The third person omniscient point of view is the most open and flexible POV available to writers. As the name implies, an omniscient narrator is all-seeing and all-knowing. While the narration outside of any one character, the narrator may occasionally access the consciousness of a few or many different characters.

Detailed explanation-2: -When you read “As the campers settled into their tents, Zara hoped her eyes did not betray her fear, and Lisa silently wished for the night to quickly end”-that’s an example of third person omniscient narration. Multiple characters’ emotions and inner thoughts are available to the reader.

Detailed explanation-3: -Third Person Omniscient This is writing from the perspective of a narrator, hovering outside the story. The narrator knows everything, but the characters don’t. It’s kind of like God is narrating, or a fly on the wall.

Detailed explanation-4: -1st person omniscient point of view is when a story is told from the first person perspective by a narrator who has omniscient (all-knowing) knowledge.