Not among the common point-of-view types used in American literature?

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Point of view shapes how a story is told and what the reader can know about the characters' thoughts and the events. In American literature, the voices you’ll encounter most often are first-person narration, where a character within the story speaks directly as I; third-person limited, where an outside narrator follows one character closely and reveals that character’s thoughts; and third-person omniscient, where an all-knowing narrator can share multiple characters’ inner lives and broader events. The second-person point of view, which uses you as the reader or as the character, is rarely used in traditional fiction because it creates a distinctive, almost intrusive distance from the story. That rarity is why it’s considered not among the common point-of-view types in American literature, while the other three are standard options writers regularly employ.