Category:Narratology

A

• [+] Anthropomorphism (9)

C

• [+] Characters by role in the narrative structure (10)
• [+] Clichés (2)
• [+] Comparative mythology (3)
• [+] Conflict (narrative) (0)
• [+] Continuity (fiction) (5)

F

• [+] False documents (4)

F cont.

• [+] Fantasy tropes (3)
• [+] Fiction with unreliable narrators (0)

G

• [+] Genres (16)

L

• [+] Literary archetypes (4)
• [+] Literary devices (0)

M

• [+] Metafiction (3)
• [+] Monomyths (2)
• [+] Mythological archetypes (8)

N

• [+] Narrative forms (5)
• [+] Narrative techniques (3)
• [+] Narrative units (1)

P

• [+] Philosophical concepts in literature (3)
• [+] Narrative poems (4)

R

• [+] Rhetoric (9)

W

• [+] World building (1)

• Narrative
• Narratology

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• Fiction

A

• A-Plot
• Action (fiction)
• Anagnorisis
• Anti-romance
• Aristeia
• Article (publishing)
• Artistic license
• Authorial intentionality
• Authoritarian literature

B

• Balanced sentence
• Beat (filmmaking)
• Big Dumb Object
• Body swap

C

• Catharsis
• Central conceit
• Character (arts)
• Character arc
• Character shield
• Characterisation
• Childhood secret club
• Climax (narrative)
• Clip show
• Comic book death
• Conflict (narrative)
• Continuity (fiction)
• Contrast (literary)

D

• Day in the life of
• Deathtrap (plot device)
• Deleted affair
• Dénouement
• Description
• Deus ex machina
• Diactic
• Dialogue (fiction)
• Diegesis
• Digital narratology
• Directorial beat
• Documentary practice
• Dramatic structure
• Dramatistic pentad

E

• Elfland catacombs
• Episode
• Epistolary novel
• Ethos
• Eucatastrophe
• Exercises in Style
• Exposition (literary technique)
• Exposition Boy

F

• Fabula and sujet
• Falling action
• False document
• Fiction writing
• Fiction-writing mode

F cont.

• Film treatment
• First-person narrative
• Flashforward
• Flashing arrow
• Focalization
• Formula fiction
• Framing device

G

• Genre
• Genre studies
• Grand argument story

H

• Had I but known
• Hamartia
• Happy ending
• Hook (filmmaking)

I

• Iceberg Theory
• Idiot plot
• In medias res
• It was a dark and stormy night

K

• Redvers Kyle

L

• Lexis (Aristotle)
• Literary forgery
• Literary technique

M

• MacGuffin
• Marriage plot
• Meta-reference
• Metafiction
• Metanoia
• Metaphoric criticism
• Mimesis
• Mode (literature)
• Monologue
• Monomyth
• Moral
• Motive (law)
• Myth of redemptive violence
• Mythos (Aristotle)

N

• Narrative design
• Narrative environment
• Narrative history
• Narrative hook
• Narrative literature
• Narrative mode
• Narrative paradigm
• Narrative structure
• Narrativity
• Narrator
• Non sequitur
• Nonlinear narrative
• List of novels by point of view

O

• Opening narration
• Out of character

P

• Paratext
• Peripeteia
• Pitch (filmmaking)
• Plot (narrative)
• Plot device
• Plot generator

P cont.

• Plot immunity
• Plot point
• Plot twist
• Poetic justice
• Poetics (Aristotle)
• Narrative poetry
• Polyphony (literature)
• Premise (filmmaking)
• Present day
• Protagonist (film)
• Psychological thriller
• Purple prose

Q

• Quest

R

• Racconto
• Real time (media)
• Representation (arts)
• Reverse chronology
• Revisionism (fictional)
• Rhetoric
• Rhetorical modes
• Rising action
• Rule of three (writing)

S

• Scene (drama)
• Screenplay
• Scriptment
• Second-person narrative
• Secret history
• Self-insertion
• Setting (literature)
• Shared universe
• Shooting script
• Show, don't tell
• Side story
• Spec script
• Step outline
• Stock character
• Story arc
• Subplot
• Suspension of disbelief
• Syntagmatic structure

T

• TV Tropes
• The Backwards Episode
• The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
• Third-person limited narrative
• Third-person omniscient narrative
• Three-act structure
• Traditional stories
• Traitté de l'origine des romans
• Transmedial play
• Twist ending
• Type scene

V

• Verisimilitude (literature)

W

• The Wheel of Fire
• Worldbuilding
• Writer's voice
• Writing style