1. Narrative
     an introduction  

Narrative

an introduction

Introduction

Narrative

Character

Character (arts)

Characterization

Character arc

Protagonist

Antagonist

Archenemy

Antihero

Supporting character

Deuteragonist

Tritagonist

False protagonist

Focal character

Foil (literature)

Stock character

Plot

Plot (narrative)

Dramatic structure

Kishōtenketsu

Conflict (narrative)

Exposition (narrative)

Plot device

Climax (narrative)

Subplot

Cliché

Trope (literature)

Dialogue

Setting

Setting (narrative)

Fictional location

Fictional city

Fictional country

Fictional universe

Utopia

Dystopia

Theme

Theme (narrative)

Motif (narrative)

Leitmotif

Moral

Style

Style (fiction)

Tone (literature)

Literary technique

Stylistic device

Figure of speech

Imagery

Symbolism (arts)

Suspension of disbelief

Diction

Form

Poetry

Epic (genre)

Fable

Parable

Legend

Folklore

Fairy tale

Fabliau

Short story

Novella

Novel

Play (theatre)

Screenplay

Hypertext fiction

Flash fiction

List of narrative forms

Genre

Literary genre

Adventure fiction

Comic novel

Crime fiction

Docufiction

Epistolary novel

Erotic literature

Fantasy

Historical fiction

Horror fiction

Magic realism

Mystery fiction

Non-fiction novel

Paranoid fiction

Philosophical fiction

Political fiction

Romance novel

Saga

Satire

Science fiction

Speculative fiction

Superhero fiction

Thriller (genre)

Urban fiction

Western fiction

Narrator

Narrative mode

First-person narrative

Second-person narrative

Stream of consciousness (narrative mode)

Unreliable narrator

Tense

Past tense

Present tense

Future tense

Medium

Screenwriting

Miscellaneous

Rhetoric

Storytelling

Narrative structure

Narratology

Literary theory

Fiction writing

Creative nonfiction

Author

Audience

• Stage Four (album)
• Stage Fright (1940 film)
• Stage Fright (cartoon)
• Stage Fright (Justin Richards novel)
• Stage Fright (Looney Tunes)
• Stagefright (song)
• Stage-gate process
• Stage hypnotist
• Stage III kidney cancer
• Stageiros
• Stage jig
• Stage Madness
• Stage Magic
• Stage monitors
• Stage Mother (film)
• Stage-name
• Stage of Evolution
• Stage One
• Stage or Screen
• Stager (disambiguation)
• Stage reference points in ballet training systems
• Stage revue
• Stager, Lawrence
• Stagerlee
• Stages (Cassadee Pope album)