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Narrative
Character
  • Antagonist
  • Antihero
  • Archenemy
  • Character arc
  • Character flaw
  • Characterization
  • Confidant
  • Deuteragonist
  • False protagonist
  • Focal character
  • Foil
  • Gothic double
  • Hamartia
  • Hero
  • Narrator
  • Protagonist
  • Stock character
  • Straight man
  • Supporting character
  • Title character
  • Tragic hero
  • Tritagonist
  • Villain
Plot
  • Action
  • Backstory
    • Origin story
  • Chekhov's gun
  • Cliché
  • Cliffhanger
  • Conflict
  • Deus ex machina
  • Dialogue
  • Dramatic structure
  • Eucatastrophe
  • Foreshadowing
  • Flashback / Flashforward
  • Frame story
  • In medias res/Ab ovo
  • Kishōtenketsu
  • MacGuffin
  • Occam's razor
  • Pace
  • Plot device
  • Plot twist
  • Poetic justice
  • Red herring
  • Reveal
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy
  • Shaggy dog story
  • Story arc
  • Subplot
  • Suspense
  • Trope
Setting
  • Alternate history
  • Backstory
  • Crossover
  • Dreamworld
  • Dystopia / Utopia
  • Fictional location
    • city
    • country
    • universe
  • Worldbuilding
Theme
  • Irony
  • Leitmotif
  • Metaphor
  • Moral
  • Motif
    • Deal with the Devil
    • Conflict between good and evil
Style
  • Allegory
  • Bathos
  • Comic relief
  • Diction
  • Figure of speech
  • Imagery
  • Mode
  • Mood
  • Narration
  • Narrative techniques
  • Show, don't tell
  • Stylistic device
  • Suspension of disbelief
  • Symbolism
  • Tone
Structure
  • Act
    • Act structure
    • Three-act structure
  • Freytag's Pyramid
    • Exposition/Protasis
    • Rising action/Epitasis
    • Climax/Peripeteia
    • Falling action/Catastasis
    • Denouement/Catastrophe
  • Linear narrative
  • Nonlinear narrative
    • films
    • television series
  • Premise
  • Types of fiction with multiple endings
Form
  • Drama
  • Fabliau
  • Flash fiction
  • Folklore
    • Fable
    • Fairy tale
    • Legend
    • Myth
    • Tall tale
  • Gamebook
  • Narrative poetry
    • Epic poetry
  • Novel
  • Novella
  • Parable
  • Short story
  • Vignette
Genre
(List)
  • Fiction
    • Action fiction
    • Adventure
    • Comic
    • Crime
    • Docufiction
    • Epistolary
    • Erotic
    • Historical
    • Mystery
    • Nautical
    • Paranoid
    • Philosophical
    • Picaresque
    • Political
    • Pop culture
    • Psychological
    • Religious
    • Rogue
    • Romance
      • Chivalric
      • Prose
    • Saga
    • Satire
    • Speculative
      • Fantasy
      • Gothic
      • Horror
      • Magic realism
      • Science
      • Superhero
    • Theological
    • Thriller
    • Urban
    • Western
  • Nonfiction
    • Novel
Narration
  • First-person
  • Multiple narrators
  • Stream of consciousness
  • Stream of unconsciousness
  • Unreliable
  • Diegesis
  • Self-insertion
Tense
  • Past
  • Present
  • Future
Related
  • Creative nonfiction
  • Dominant narrative
  • Fiction writing
    • Continuity
      • Canon
      • Reboot
      • Retcon
    • Prequel / Sequel
  • Literary science
  • Literary theory
  • Narrative therapy
  • Narratology
  • Political narrative
  • Rhetoric
  • Screenwriting
  • Storytelling
  • Tellability
Template documentation

Initial visibility: currently defaults to autocollapse

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  • |state=collapsed: ((Narrative|state=collapsed)) to show the template collapsed, i.e., hidden apart from its title bar
  • |state=expanded: ((Narrative|state=expanded)) to show the template expanded, i.e., fully visible
  • |state=autocollapse: ((Narrative|state=autocollapse))
    • shows the template collapsed to the title bar if there is a ((navbar)), a ((sidebar)), or some other table on the page with the collapsible attribute
    • shows the template in its expanded state if there are no other collapsible items on the page

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