1. The grammatical category of forms that designate the person addressed. Examples of forms in the second person include English pronouns such as you and verb forms such as Spanish hablas "you speak."
2. A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms: a story told in the second person.

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