first-person narrative

collocation in English

meaningsoffirst-personandnarrative

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first-person
adjective
uk
/ˈfɜːstˌpɜː.sən/us
/ˈfɜ˞ːstˌpɜ˞ː.sən/
showing that someone is speaking or writing about ...
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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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(Definition offirst-personandnarrativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Interwoven with them is a faintly embarrassingfirst-personnarrativeexpressing the author's intellectual doubts about whether and why his research is justified.
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Memoirs exploited their adoption offirst-personnarrativeas a rhetorical device to claim truth.
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Smith'sfirst-personnarrativeshares with statutory language the capacity to shape social reality through signs.
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The short story is told in thefirst-personnarrativeby both people.
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The book is afirst-personnarrativeof spiritual awakening.
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The novel takes the form of a research article and is written infirst-personnarrativeform.
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For this reason,first-personnarrativeis often used for detective fiction, so that the reader and narrator uncover the case together.
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Instead, we get afirst-personnarrativefrom an unnamed female character.
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The novels are written in thefirst-personnarrativestyle and the narrators often exhibit human failings.
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The game was viewed in a first-person perspective, followed afirst-personnarrative, and featured color graphics.
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The lyrics are afirst-personnarrativeabout a young woman dying on the side of a road after a car accident.
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