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Many stories, especially in literature, alternate between the third person limited and third person omniscient.
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It uses a distinctive non-chronological third-person omniscient narration, describing events from the points of view of different characters.
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This technique avoids the use of character-zoning by an omniscient narrator who assumes the authority to enter the minds of his characters.
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The second axis is the omniscient/limited axis, a distinction that refers to the knowledge available to the narrator.
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Only an omniscient mind could be aware of all of the relevant information.
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Omniscient point of view is also referred to as alternating point of view, because the story sometimes alternates between characters.
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That some entity is omniscient in the sense of possessing all possible propositional knowledge does not imply that it also possesses all possible experiential knowledge.
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A fourth voice is also presented; the narrator is a mostly impersonal, omniscient, third-person entity and is nothing more than a standard storytelling device.
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The book is written in an omniscient modern presence occasionally given to wisecracks, with extensive use of the continuous present.
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An omniscient point-of-view, in writing, is to know everything that can be known about a character, including past history, thoughts, feelings, etc.
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