"Any account of a series of related events or experiences, whether nonfictional or fictional."
The way a story is organized and presented to create a coherent plot and engage readers or audiences.
Plot: Plot is the sequence of events that make up a story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Characterization: Characterization is the technique of creating characters with personality traits, physical descriptions, and backstories, and how they interact with the plot.
Theme: Theme is the message or central idea woven throughout the story.
Point of view: Point of view is the perspective from which the story is told (first person, second person, or third person).
Setting: The setting is the time, place, and environment in which the story takes place.
Conflict: Conflict is the problem or obstacle that the protagonist must resolve to achieve their goals.
Dialogue: Dialogue is the spoken or written conversation between characters.
Foreshadowing: Foreshadowing is the hinting at future events within the story.
Symbolism: Symbolism is the use of an object, person, or situation to represent a larger idea or concept.
Flashbacks: Flashbacks are a technique used to reveal past events or memories of a character to help explain their behavior or understanding of the current situation.
Irony: Irony is the use of language, situation, or character to convey a message that is the opposite of what is expected.
Imagery: Imagery is the use of sensory details to create a vivid visual experience for the reader.
Mood: Mood is the overall emotional tone that the story creates.
Tone: Tone is the author’s attitude towards the subject matter or characters in the story.
Narrative arc: Narrative arc is the overall structure of the story, which includes exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
Linear Narrative: The story progresses in chronological order, with all the events happening one after another.
Nonlinear Narrative: These narratives don't follow a sequential order but jump back and forth in time, highlighting events that occur out of order.
Epistolary Narrative: This type of narrative includes letters, emails, or journal entries, that reveal the story through personal and intimate first-person accounts.
Stream of Consciousness Narrative: A type of narrative that involves the flow of unfiltered, unplanned thoughts of a character, bypassing any logical structure.
Frame Narrative: These narratives have a story within a story. The overall story acts as a framing device for a smaller, self-contained narrative.
Circular Narrative: These stories start and end in the same place, with a time loop that reinforces the story's central themes.
Multiple Narrative: This type of structure includes multiple characters' stories, often overlapping in different ways and connected with a common thread.
In media res Narrative: The story starts in the middle of a significant action, with no background or explanation of what has happened before.
Nested Narrative: Often called "Chinese-Box" structure, this type of narrative features multiple levels of storytelling in concentric circles, with each level revealing more about the other.
Hero's Journey Narrative: This type of narrative follows a hero's initial call to adventure, their journey through various obstacles and trials, and finally their return home transformed.
"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."