firstperson

first person n.

1. The grammatical category of forms that designate a speaker or writer referring to himself or herself. Examples of forms in the first person include English pronouns such as I and we and verb forms such as Spanish hablo “I speak.”

2. A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms:

a novel written in the first person.

  firstʹ-perʹson (fûrstʹpûrʹsən) adj.

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