Category:Narrative techniques

A

• Allegory (8 C, 97 P)
• Aphorisms (2 C, 22 P)

D

• Damsels in distress (8 C, 54 P)
• Deal with the Devil (4 C, 58 P)
• Descriptive technique (15 P)

F

• Fiction with multiple narrators (1 C, 6 P)
• First-person narrative fiction (2 C, 13 P)
• Frame stories (9 C, 93 P)

L

• Literary motifs (5 C, 33 P)

M

• Metafictional techniques (2 C, 18 P)
• Metaphors (6 C, 64 P)
• Metonymy (1 C, 6 P)

N

• Nonlinear narrative fiction (3 C, 4 P)

P

• Placeholder names (56 P)
• Placeholder words (7 P)
• Plot (narrative) (3 C, 59 P)
• Poetic devices (6 C, 49 P)
• Point of view (2 C, 55 P)
• Polysemy (8 P)

S

• Second-person narrative fiction (2 C, 3 P)
• Stream of consciousness fiction (1 C, 1 P)
• Synecdoche (3 P)

T

• Third-person narrative fiction (1 C, 8 P)

U

• Unseen characters (41 P)

• List of narrative techniques
• Plot device
• Stylistic device

A

• Ab initio
• Ab ovo
• Action (narrative)
• Aesthetic distance
• Alien space bats
• Allegory
• Allusion
• Analog horror
• Ancient Indian rhetoric
• Aphorism
• Apologue
• Artistic symbol
• Aside
• Audience immersion
• Audience superior position
• Author surrogate

B

• Backstory
• Bagatelle (literary technique)
• Bed trick

C

• Cacography
• Chekhov's gun
• Chreia
• Closed circle of suspects
• Cold open
• Collaborative poetry
• Comedic device
• Condensation (psychology)

D

• Deal with the Devil
• Design fiction
• Deus ex machina
• Digression
• Dionysian imitatio
• Dream sequence
• Dream world (plot device)

E

• E-Prime
• Ellipsis (narrative device)
• Entrelacement
• Epic catalogue
• Epic Laws of Folk Narrative
• Euphuism
• Exposition (narrative)
• Eye dialect

F

• Fable
• Fairy tale
• Farmer's daughter
• Fictional encyclopaedism
• Flashback (narrative)
• Flashforward
• Floating timeline
• Foreshadowing
• Found footage (film technique)
• Frame story
• Free indirect speech

H

• Heteronym (literature)
• Historical present
• Homeric simile
• Homophone
• Homunculus
• Hypocatastasis

I

• Idiot plot
• Illeism
• Imagery
• Imitation (art)
• In medias res
• Interactive television (narrative technique)
• Intercalary chapter
• Interlacing in The Lord of the Rings
• Irony

J

• Jonbar hinge

K

• Kishu ryūritan

L

• Level of detail (writing)
• Line (poetry)
• Line break (poetry)
• Literary Commentary in the French Baccalaureate
• Love triangle

M

• MacGuffin
• Melitzah
• Metalepsis
• Metaphor and metonymy
• Metasemantic poetry
• Metonymy
• Multiperspectivity

O

• Offscreen
• Opening sentence

P

• Pace (narrative)
• Parable
• Plot (narrative)
• Psittacism
• Purposeful omission

Q

• Quest
• Quibble (plot device)

R

• Red herring
• Redshirt (stock character)
• Retroactive continuity
• Reveal (narrative)
• Running gag

S

• Sexposition
• Shoulder angel
• Show, don't tell
• Simile
• Simulated Real Time
• Slice of life
• Soliloquy
• Stand-up comedy
• Stream of consciousness
• Stream of unconsciousness
• Surprise factor
• Suspense
• Svayamvara
• Switcheroo

T

• Telegraphing (entertainment)
• Title drop
• Tonal whiplash
• Translation convention
• Tuckerization

U

• Unreliable narrator

V

• Villain of the week

W

• Wisdom (personification)
• Word play
• Worldbuilding

Y

• Yakuwarigo