Second person narration is the least common narrative form. Second-person narration is when the story is told as if the narrator were talking to a specific person (or persons). For example, a story told by a second person narrator would go like this: "You and Harry went down to the store. It was cold that day, and damp, and you were chilled to the bone. As you drove, you began to wonder what life would have been like if you had never met Harry."
For comparison, first person narration is when the narrator refers to him/herself as "I" and "me," like, "Harry and I went down to the store. I remember it was cold that day, and damp, and I was chilled to the bone. As we drove, I began to wonder what life would have been like if I'd never met Harry."
Third person narration is when the story is told from the perspective of one of the characters, but the character is referred to as "he/she" or "him/her," as in, "She and Harry went down to the store. It was cold that day, and damp, and she was chilled to the bone. As they drove, she began to wonder what life would have been like if she'd never met Harry."
Third person omniscient narration is when the story is told from the perspective of many different characters, as in, "She and Harry went down to the store. It was cold that day, and damp, and she was chilled to the bone. As they drove, she began to wonder what life would have been like if she'd never met Harry. Harry, on the other hand, didn't feel the cold at all. He was thinking only about the argument they'd had last night. Sometimes he felt as though she did not love him as much as he loved her." The narrator in this case is like God (omniscient) -- the narrator sees all and knows all, and tells the story from the perspective of many characters.
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