first person
- the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural).
- a pronoun or verb form in the first person, as I or am in English, or a set of such forms.
- a literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly about himself or herself: a story written in the first person.
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Origin of first person
First recorded in 1935–40
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Contemporary Examples
All three are first-person works, and each could be labeled “experimental” in its own way.
Lars Iyer’s ‘Wittgenstein Jr.’ Plumbs the Deep Fun of Philosophical FictionDrew Smith
October 1, 2014
What might be called the first-person camera industry has been growing steadily throughout the last decade.
This first-person video is mesmerizing, terrifying, and awe-inspiring.
Chubby Korean Baby Dance, Goat Riding Guy Riding Bike, and More Viral VideosThe Daily Beast Video
June 1, 2014
Functionally, the end product makes walking around look a lot like playing a first-person shooter game like Halo.
Most of the early ones were first-person reminiscences or historical encomiums.
Historical Examples
Homer's mind, in other words, remembers as first-person data experiences it never had.
The Short LifeFrancis Donovan
Stevenson said, in one of the Vailima Letters, that first-person tales were more in accord with his temperament.
Essays on Modern NovelistsWilliam Lyon Phelps
first person
- a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself or herself, either alone (first person singular) or together with others (first person plural)
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