Category:Narrative techniques

A

• Allegory
• Aphorisms

D

• Damsels in distress
• Deal with the Devil
• Descriptive technique

F

• Fiction with multiple narrators
• First-person narrative fiction
• Frame stories

M

• Metafictional techniques
• Metonymy

P

• Placeholder names
• Plot (narrative)
• Poetic devices
• Point of view

S

• Second-person narrative fiction
• Stream of consciousness fiction
• Synecdoche

T

• Third-person narrative fiction

U

• Unseen characters

• List of narrative techniques
• Plot device

A

• Ab initio
• Aesthetic distance
• Alien space bats
• Allegory
• Allusion
• Analog horror
• Ancient Indian rhetoric
• Aphorism
• Author surrogate

B

• Backstory
• Bed trick

C

• Chekhov's gun
• Chreia
• Closed circle of suspects
• Condensation (psychology)

D

• Deal with the Devil
• Design fiction
• Deus ex machina
• Dream sequence

E

• E-Prime
• Epic catalogue
• Epic Laws of Folk Narrative

F

• Fable
• Fairy tale
• Farmer's daughter
• Fictional encyclopaedism
• Flashback (narrative)
• Flashforward
• Floating timeline
• Found footage (film technique)

H

• Historical present
• Homeric simile
• Homophone
• Homunculus

I

• Illeism
• Imagery
• Interactive television (narrative technique)
• Interlacing in The Lord of the Rings

K

• Kishu ryūritan

L

• Level of detail (writing)
• Line (poetry)
• Love triangle

M

• MacGuffin
• Metalepsis
• Metaphor and metonymy
• Metasemantic poetry
• Metonymy

O

• Offscreen
• Opening sentence

P

• Pace (narrative)
• Parable
• Plot (narrative)
• Psittacism
• Purposeful omission

Q

• Quest
• Quibble (plot device)

R

• Redshirt (stock character)
• Retroactive continuity
• Reveal (narrative)
• Running gag

S

• Sexposition
• Shoulder angel
• Simile
• Simulated Real Time
• Slice of life
• Stand-up comedy
• Stream of consciousness
• Stream of unconsciousness
• Suspense
• Switcheroo
• Symbolic language (literature)

T

• Title drop
• Translation convention
• Tuckerization

W

• Wisdom (personification)
• Word play
• Worldbuilding