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Narrative techniques
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The list Narrative techniques includes
Franz Karl Stanzel, Retroactive continuity, Stream of consciousness, Stand-up comedy and Ab initio.
The list consists of 43 members
and 23 sublists.
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Narrative
Account that presents connected events
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Love triangle
Romantic relationship involving three people
Overview: A love triangle is a scenario or circumstance, usually depicted as a rivalry, in which two people are pursuing or involved in a romantic relationship with one person, or in which one person in a romantic ...
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Fairy tale
Fictional story typically featuring folkloric fantasy characters and magic
Overview: A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, household tale, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic, e ... 0
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Stand-up comedy
Comedy style where the performer addresses the audience directly
Overview: Stand-up comedy is a performance directed to a live audience, where the performer stands on a stage and delivers humorous and satirical monologues sometimes incorporating physical acts. These performances ... 0
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Fable
short fictional story that often anthropomorphises non-humans to illustrate a moral lesson
Overview: Fable is a literary genre defined as a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized ... 0
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Suspense
State of mental uncertainty
Overview: Suspense is a state of anxiety or excitement caused by mysteriousness, uncertainty, doubt, or undecidedness. In a narrative work, suspense is the audience's excited anticipation about the plot or conflict ... 0
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Franz Karl Stanzel
Austrian literary criticOverview: Franz Karl Stanzel (4 August 1923 – 17 October 2023) was an Austrian literary theorist who specialised in English literature.Date of birth: 4 August 1923Date of death: 17 October 2023Age: 100 (age at death)Nationality: AustrianOccupation: Critic 0
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Homunculus
alchemical miniature human beingOverview: A homunculus (hom-UNK-yuul-əs, hohm-, "little person", pl.: homunculi hom-UNK-yuul-lye, hohm-, ) is a small human being. Popularized in 16th-century alchemy and 19th-century fiction, it has historically ... 0
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Soliloquy
dramatic device where a character speaks to his- or herselfOverview: A soliloquy (from Latin solo "to oneself" + loquor "I talk", plural soliloquies) is a monologue addressed to oneself, thoughts spoken out loud without addressing another person. 0
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Cold open
scene of a television episode or film that precedes the title sequenceOverview: A cold open (also called a teaser sequence) is a narrative technique used in television and films. It is the practice of jumping directly into a story at the beginning of the show before the title sequence ... 0
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Simile
figure of speech indicating a similarity explicitly,e.g. using "like" or "as", contrasting to metaphor in which the similarity is implicit, e.g. of the form "A is B"Overview: A simile is a type of figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes are often contrasted with metaphors, where similes necessarily compare two things using words such as "like", "as", while ... 0
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Red herring
false clue that misleads or distracts attention away from a relevant or important question
Overview: A red herring is something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important question. It may be either a logical fallacy or a literary device that leads readers or audiences toward a false conc ... 0
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Quest
journey to fullfill a task, used mainly as plot device in mythology and fiction
Overview: A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. It serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical. Tales of quests figure ... 0
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In medias res
narrative that opens mid-plot, or 'in the middle of things'
Overview: A narrative work beginning in medias res (lit. "into the middle of things") opens in the chronological middle of the plot, rather than at the beginning (cf. ab ovo, ab initio). Often, exposition is in ... 0
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Plot device
anything which moves the plot forward or maintains itOverview: A plot device or plot mechanism is any technique in a narrative used to move the plot forward. 0
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Deal with the Devil
cultural motif
Overview: A deal with the Devil, also known as a Faustian bargain, is a cultural motif exemplified by the legend of Faust and the figure of Mephistopheles, as well as being elemental to many Christian traditions ... 0
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Backstory
background story of a characterOverview: A backstory, background story, background, or legend is a set of events invented for a plot, preceding and leading up to that plot. In acting, it is the history of the character before the drama begins ... 0
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Unreliable narrator
narrator whose credibility has been seriously compromised
Overview: In literature, film, and other such arts, an unreliable narrator is a narrator who cannot be trusted, one whose credibility is compromised. They can be found in a wide range from children to mature ch ... 0
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Parable
short didactic story which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles
Overview: A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects ... 0
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Running gag
literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling
Overview: A running gag, or running joke, is a literary device that takes the form of an amusing joke or a comical reference and appears repeatedly throughout a work of literature or other form of storytelling ... 0
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Retroactive continuity
Alteration of previously established facts in the continuity of a fictional work
Overview: Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which facts in the world of a fictional work that have been established through the narrative itself are adjusted, ignored, supplemented ... 0
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