narrative technique
Author's craft choice
Narrative technique refers to the methods a storyteller uses to convey a story—point of view, structure, pacing, dialogue, flashbacks, and similar devices.
A writer might employ an unreliable narrator or nonlinear timeline as narrative techniques.
The term appears most often in literary analysis: The novel's narrative technique shifts between first and third person.
- focalizationNarrative point of view
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- framing deviceStructure enclosing main story
- foreshadowingHinting at later events
unreliable narrator · rising action · tension building · in medias res · time jump · imagery · interior monologue · subplot · show don't tell · climax · cliffhanger · falling action · narrator · first person · irony · backstory · perspective · breaking the fourth wall
narrative techniqueplot
Storyline or land parcel
subject matter · storyline · fictional world · raw material · source material
narrative techniquespontaneous expression
Unpremeditated emotional display
stream of consciousness · oral tradition · automatic writing
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