Before I begin, let me follow up on last week by breifly discussing Huck Finn. Twain writes in a pseudo-present tense, as while it's clear that Huck is speaking about previous events, he uses phrasing like "He says," or "I am." It's supposed to be like listening to someone tell a story, or like one of those "A guy walks into a bar" jokes. I hadn't considered this kind of implement of present tense last week; it gets my approval.
Now, today we discuss an even more narrowly implemented style: second person. To put it concretely, The second person is a story in which you are a participant, and which is told from your perspective by a limited narrator. This technique is almost exclusively relegated to the text based or "Chose your own" media. Interactivity is almost a necessity, as dictating a reader's actions to them is essentially a less efficient form of third person limited.
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