Voice and narrative point of view: first/third person, omniscient/restricted, reliable/unreliable

What this note covers

1. Two related terms, precisely defined
2. First person: intimacy, limitation and self-interest
3. Third person: restricted, omniscient, and the free indirect middle
4. Reliability: how a text teaches you to doubt
5. Second person, multiple voices, and voice in non-fiction
6. Voice and point of view in visual and multimodal texts
7. Point of view as an argument about values
8. How this is examined, and what separates a top answer

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