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2. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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   A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses [1] —in other words, a strategy applied in the delivering of a narrative to relay information to the audience and to make the narrative more complete, complex, or engaging. Some scholars also call such a technique a ...

3. Flashback (narrative) - Wikipedia

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   Flashback (narrative) A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story. [1] Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of events to fill in crucial backstory. [2] In the opposite direction, a flashforward (or prolepsis) reveals events ...

4. Show, don't tell - Wikipedia

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   Show, don't tell. Show, don't tell is a narrative technique used in various kinds of texts to allow the reader to experience the story through actions, words, subtext, thoughts, senses, and feelings rather than through the author's exposition, summarization, and description. [1] It avoids adjectives describing the author's analysis and instead ...

5. Category:Narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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   Placeholder names ‎ (59 P) Plot (narrative) ‎ (3 C, 58 P) Poetic devices ‎ (7 C, 49 P) Point of view ‎ (2 C, 55 P) Polysemy ‎ (8 P)

6. Narration - Wikipedia

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   Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events. Narration is a required element of ...

7. Narrative hook - Wikipedia

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   Narrative hook. A narrative hook (or just hook) is a literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that they will keep on reading. The "opening" may consist of several paragraphs for a short story, or several pages for a novel, but ideally it is the opening sentence in the book. [1][2]

8. Exposition (narrative) - Wikipedia

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   Exposition (narrative) Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. [1] In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within ...

9. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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   Epistolary - a story usually in a letter written form with a section of dialogue. Narrative forms include: Autobiography – a detailed description or account of the storyteller's own life. Biography – a detailed description or account of someone's life. Captivity narrative – a story in which the protagonist is captured and describes their ...