Me, Myself, and... You?
Attention to Detail
ESP!
Narrator or author
100
In this narrative mode, the most common, the narrator refers to all of the characters with pronouns such as "he", "she", and "them".
What is third person?
100
There is a digital sandbox in this short story featuring a first-person child narrator.
What is Everywhere?
100
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, about a man dreaming of mars, features this type of all-knowing narrator.
What is omniscient?
100
The author is NOT the narrator in this story about a lonely teenage girl seemingly given a second chance.
What is The Girl Who Was Plugged In?
200
In this common form of narration, one of the characters is telling the story, but you must be wary of unreliable narrators.
What is first person?
200
This story, which occasionally switches between third- and second-person point of view, features a lot of ICE.
What is Burning Chrome?
200
This story about a (potentially crazy) photographer makes use of subjective narration.
What is The Gernsback Continuum?
200
The author IS the narrator in this story featuring jelly beans.
What is Repent Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman
300
In this rare narrative mode, the author makes the reader feel as if they are part of the story by referring to them as "you".
What is second person?
300
One character likes to drive like a maniac in this utopia with first-person narration.
What is When It Changed?
300
In "Repent, Harlequin...", this type of narrator (who describes none of the characters' thoughts or emotions) is used.
What is objective?
300
The author is NOT the narrator in this short story about a feminist utopia.
What is When It Changed?
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