0 the voice in which a story is written that is outside the story and knows everything about the characters and events in the story --
1 the voice in which a story is written that is outside the story and that knows everything about the characters and events in the story --
By contrast, a third-person omniscient narrator gives a panoramic view of the world of the story, looking into many characters and into the broader background of a story.
The book features a third-person omniscient narrator.
Battles were fought on elaborate closed sets, with an omniscient narrator, on-screen scoring and health gauges, giving the show a feel of a cinematic live-action video game.
Most moments in which there is a fantastic occurrence constitute a change in point of view, from the omniscient narrator to a specific character with particular beliefs.
Other stylistic devices are also used, such as an omniscient narrator who sometimes addresses the reader directly, weighs in on the characters' motivations or discusses alternate realities.
Another is the omniscient narrator who serves to make sense of the world.
A third-person omniscient narrator can be an animal or an object, or it can be a more abstract instance that does not refer to itself.
In a curious device, repeated for each of the incidents, the omniscient narrator never actually shows us the details of the incident.
