Knowra Narrative Narrative A narrative presents connected events, real or imagined, through a particular structure and perspective. Its arrangement and telling shape how those events are understood.
Plot : The selection and arrangement of events in a story, including their causal and temporal relations. Plot organizes the events a narrative presents into a particular sequence.
Analepsis : A narrative interruption that presents an event from an earlier time. Analepsis lets a narrative disclose earlier events after later ones have begun.
Novel : A long work of prose fiction with sustained characters, events, and settings. The novel is a form built to develop extended narratives.
Narratology : The systematic study of narrative forms, structures, and ways of telling. Narratology develops analytic tools for describing narrative choices.
Description : A representation that characterizes people, places, objects, or conditions rather than primarily recounting events. Description can establish a scene without connecting events into a narrative.
Story : A sequence of events understood as happening to characters in a fictional or factual account. Story is the event sequence, while narrative is the shaped presentation of it.
Prolepsis : A narrative interruption that presents an event from a later time. Prolepsis moves a narrative ahead to an event before its chronological point.
Short story : A brief work of prose fiction organized around a limited set of events or effects. Its compressed form shows how narrative can concentrate on a few decisive events.
Rhetoric : The study and practice of shaping communication to inform, persuade, or move an audience. Narratives use rhetorical choices to guide interpretation and response.
Lyric poetry : Poetry centered on a speaker's voice, feeling, or reflection rather than sustained event sequence. Lyric poetry often foregrounds a state of feeling where narrative foregrounds change over time.
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