what is second-person narrative?

Answer 1

Second-person narration is a narrative technique in which the protagonist or another main character is referred to by employment of second-person personal pronouns and other kinds of addressing forms, for example the English second-person pronoun "you".

"You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot say that the terrain is entirely unfamiliar, although the details are fuzzy. You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard lounge. All might come clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder" (The opening lines of Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City (novel) (1985)).
Traditionally, the employment of the second-person form in literary fiction has not been as prevalent as the corresponding first-person and third-person forms, yet second-person narration is, in many languages, a very common technique of several popular and non- or quasi-fictional written genres such as guide books, self-help books, D.I.Y-manuals, interactive fiction, role-playing games, Choose Your Own Adventure series of novels, pop song lyrics, advertisements, etc.

Answer 2

When it is descibed in the terms of 'you' e.g you went shopping. It is used to include the reader in the narrative to make it more interesting.

Answer 3

second person narrative is when you are talking about someone else
first person is when you are talking about yourself

Answer 4

"I" of course is first person and "she" "he" etc is third. I guess second person is "You" as in when the "you" refers to "I". For instance a passage in a book might go....
"Whenever you went to a football match - you never knew if you were going to end up being bitterly disappointed at the poor quality of play"

Answer 5

You walk into a shop, and there you see a woman. You look at her but she recognises you from last week, slaps you, stomps on your foot and walks away. You know you had it coming but it still stings....

1st person - I
2nd person - you
3rd - he/she/it

Answer 6

1st person--speaker; "I am"

2nd person--spoken to: "You are"

3rd person--spoken about: "He is"