Read the following excerpt:

"I had never seen the river before that summer; its water glimmered like polished glass, and I could hear the distant call of the fisherman as if it were a song. She watched him from the bank, noting how his eyes never left the water."

Identify the narrative perspective used in the first sentence and explain how the perspective shifts in the second sentence.

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Read the following excerpt:

"I had never seen the river before that summer; its water glimmered like polished glass, and I could hear the distant call of the fisherman as if it were a song. She watched him from the bank, noting how his eyes never left the water."

Identify the narrative perspective used in the first sentence and explain how the perspective shifts in the second sentence.

Accepted Answer

First‑person limited in the first sentence; shifts to third‑person limited in the second sentence.

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