A speaker or character who recounts events is called a ...

• A. First-person narrative
• B. Narrator
• C. Omniscient narrator
• D. Perspective

Answer: (B)

The speaker or character recounting events is a narrator. The narrator is the voice that tells the story, and it can be someone inside the story (a first-person narrator) or outside the events (a third-person narrator). That makes it the most general and accurate term for the teller of the story.

Why this fits best: it names the role itself—the person or voice doing the telling—whereas first-person narrative describes a way of telling (using I) rather than the teller themselves, omniscient narrator refers to a specific type of narrator who knows everything, and perspective concerns the viewpoint or angle from which the story is told rather than who is telling it.