narrator

An essential element of fiction (rarely found in poetry or plays), the narrator is the consciousness or entity telling the story. The narrator is not necessarily the same person as the author, but is sometimes a character in a story told in first-person. Conventionally, narrators are third-person, omniscient, looking at the events and characters from the outside, but sometimes a narrator will be as limited as a single character in the short story or novel, not seeing and knowing everything. The narrator will also have a point of view or a tone of voice that makes the story more interesting to experience.