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Narrator vs Heterodiegetic - What's the difference?

narrator | heterodiegetic |

As a noun narrator

is one who narrates or tells stories.

As an adjective heterodiegetic is

(literature|cinema) of or relating to a narrator that does not take part in the plot.

narrator

English

(wikipedia narrator)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who narrates or tells stories.
  • (narratology) The person or the "voice" whose viewpoint is used in telling a story.
  • (film, and, television) The person providing the voice-over in a documentary.

    • Synonyms

    * storyteller

    Related terms

    * narrate * narration * narrative * unreliable narrator

    heterodiegetic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (literature, cinema) Of or relating to a narrator that does not take part in the plot.

    • Antonyms

    * autodiegetic * homodiegetic