"Any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional or fictional."
Plot, Character, Setting, Point of View, and Theme.
Plot: The sequence of events that make up the story.
Setting: The time, place, and physical environment of the story.
Characterization: The process of creating and developing characters in the story.
Point of View: The perspective from which the story is told.
Theme: The underlying message, idea, or concept explored in a literary work.
Symbolism: The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities.
Conflict: The struggle between opposing forces that drives the story.
Irony: The use of words to convey a meaning that is opposite of their literal meaning.
Foreshadowing: Hints or clues given throughout the story that reveal events to come.
Tone: The author's attitude towards the subject matter or characters in the story.
Style: The author's choice of language, sentence structure, and literary devices to communicate the story.
Genre: The type or category of the literary work (e.g. romance, horror, science fiction, etc.).
Narration: The act of telling the story and the techniques used to do so.
Imagery: The use of vivid and descriptive language to create mental images in the reader's mind.
Figurative language: The use of words and phrases that are not meant to be taken literally, such as metaphors and similes.
Plot: The sequence of events in a story.
Character: The people, animals or objects who drive the story forward.
Setting: The time and place where the story occurs.
Theme: The main idea or message conveyed by the story.
Conflict: The struggle between opposing forces in the story.
Point of view: The perspective from which the story is told.
Tone: The author's attitude or mood towards the subject matter.
Style: The author's particular way of using language and crafting sentences.
Symbolism: The use of objects or images to represent deeper meanings or ideas.
Irony: A situation where the opposite of what is expected or intended occurs.
Foreshadowing: Hints or clues that hint at events yet to come in the story.
Imagery: Descriptive language that paints a vivid picture in the reader's mind.
Allegory: A story in which characters and events represent larger abstract ideas or themes.
Flashback: A narrative device that moves backward in time to recount previous events.
Motif: A recurring element or idea throughout the story that contributes to its overall meaning.
"The word derives from the Latin verb narrare (to tell), which is derived from the adjective gnarus (knowing or skilled)."
"Narration, argumentation, description, and exposition."
"The social and cultural activity of sharing narratives is called storytelling."
"Oral storytelling."
"These narratives are used to guide children on proper behavior, history, formation of a communal identity, and cultural values."
"In all mediums of human creativity, art, and entertainment, including speech, literature, theatre, music and song, comics, journalism, film, television, animation and video, video games, radio, game-play, unstructured recreation, and performance in general."
"Several art movements, such as modern art, refuse the narrative in favor of the abstract and conceptual."
"Narrative can be organized into thematic or formal categories such as nonfiction, fictionalization of historical events, and fiction proper."
"Creative nonfiction, biography, journalism, transcript poetry, and historiography."
"Anecdote, myth, legend, and historical fiction."
"Literature in the form of prose and sometimes poetry, short stories, novels, narrative poems and songs, and imaginary narratives portrayed in other textual forms, games, or live or recorded performances."
"Narratives may be nested within other narratives, such as narratives told by an unreliable narrator typically found in the genre of noir fiction."
"Its narrative mode, the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a written or spoken commentary."
"Written or spoken words, still or moving images, or any combination of these."
"To convey any written narrative."
"Anthropology studies the use of narratives to guide behavior, convey history, form communal identity, and instill cultural values among traditional indigenous peoples."
"Yes, narrative can be found in some painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, and other visual arts, as long as a sequence of events is presented."
"The aesthetic approach refers to the set of methods used to communicate the narrative through a written or spoken commentary."
"Yes, narratives are present in video games as a form of art, entertainment, and storytelling."