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GCSE English Language · key term
Narration that refers to characters by names or pronouns such as ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘they’, rather than telling their story as ‘I’.
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Paper 1, Paper 2
Revise: Reading 20th- and 21st-century fiction and literary non-fictionFirst-person narration uses ‘I’ or ‘we’; third-person narration refers to people as ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘they’ or by name.
Paper 2
Narration in which the storyteller refers to characters as ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘they’ or by name, rather than telling the story as ‘I’.
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For Question 5, first- or third-person narration can work. Question 6 invites a first-person account, which may be autobiographical, although an imagined experience told through a fictional persona can also work. In either case, the narrator’s reactions must remain connected to the actual task.
Component 1
Narration referring to characters by name or using pronouns such as ‘he’, ‘she’ and ‘they’.
Revise: Characters, dialogue and settingWith third-person narration, characters are called by their names or referred to as ‘he’, ‘she’ or ‘they’. You can still follow one character closely: ‘Maya looked towards the door. She wanted to leave.’
