narrative form
How tales unfold
Narrative form is storytelling structure—the way events, characters, and information are organized to create a story.
The term appears in discussions of literature, film, and other media: The documentary uses narrative form rather than presenting raw footage.
It encompasses choices about chronology, point of view, and how meaning unfolds for the audience.
- story arcNarrative's overall shape
- novelNew and unusual
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- rising actionPlot buildup toward climax
- characterNature, symbol, or role
voice · short story · graphic novel · tone · oral storytelling · tall tale · setting · focalization · metafiction · conflict · resolution · screenplay · theme · allegory · pacing · intertextuality · climax · foreshadowing
- literary criticismliterary theory, literary analysis, close reading, New Criticism, criticism
- media artvideo art, digital art, electronic media, moving image, interactive media
- Nordic LiteratureIbsen, Icelandic sagas, Norse sagas, sagas, Henrik Ibsen
- Zuihitsu
narrative formstream of consciousness
Narrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
formlessness · raw data · chaos · fragments · random sequence
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