general/narrative-techniques
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Narrative technique
Foreshadowing
Literary technique
Digression
Temporary shift of subject in speech or text
Farmer's daughter
Stereotype in fiction
Exposition (narrative)
Background information within a narrative; one of four rhetorical modes
Stream of unconsciousness
Narrative device used in literature
Psittacism
Repetitive manner of speech
Line (poetry)
Subdivision of a poem
Flashback (narrative)
Interjected scene that takes a narrative back in time
Quibble (plot device)
Reliance on exact conditions of an agreement
Flashforward
Interjected scene that takes a narrative forward in time
Red herring
Fallacious approach to mislead an audience
Homeric simile
Comparison in the form of a lengthy simile
List of narrative techniques
List of methods used to convey information in a narrative
Illeism
Act of referring to oneself in the third person