Narrator and point of view

The story “Hop-Frog” by Edgar Allan Poe is a first-person narration told from the perspective of an unknown person who knows the characters and was probably present at the events he is narrating: “I NEVER knew anyone so keenly alive to a joke as the king was. He seemed to live only for joking.” 

The narrator has limited knowledge of the events and the characters; unlike omniscient narrators who know everything about the characters and their thoughts, this narrator is only an outside observer, som...