AQA GCSE English Language · 8700
Paper 1
The perspective from which a story is told, controlling whose experiences and knowledge the reader receives.
Revise: Narrative writing: the opening of a storyNarrative viewpoint is the perspective through which events reach the reader. A first-person narrator uses “I” and can give direct access to that narrator’s thoughts. The reader normally knows only what the narrator experiences, remembers or learns.
- Revise: Planning and structuring creative writing
The position from which a text presents events, such as a first-person participant or a third-person narrator.