ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Common types of narrative: Descriptive narrative. Viewpoint narrative. Historical narrative. Linear narrative.

Detailed explanation-2: -Historical narratives may be primary sources, which present direct, firsthand knowledge. Examples would be a diary, letter, speech, journal, or autobiography.

Detailed explanation-3: -Narrative history is the practice of writing history in a story-based form. It tends to entail history-writing based on reconstructing series of short-term events, and ever since the influential work of Leopold von Ranke on professionalising history-writing in the nineteenth century has been associated with empiricism.

Detailed explanation-4: -First Person-In this point of view, a character (typically the protagonist, but not always) is telling the story. Second Person-In this point of view, the author uses a narrator to speak to the reader. Third Person-In this point of view, an external narrator is telling the story.