general/narrative-techniques
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Digression
Temporary shift of subject in speech or text
Farmer's daughter
Stereotype in fiction
Foreshadowing
Literary technique
Exposition (narrative)
Background information within a narrative; one of four rhetorical modes
Illeism
Act of referring to oneself in the third person
Psittacism
Repetitive manner of speech
Stream of unconsciousness
Narrative device used in literature
Show, don't tell
Narrative technique
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
List of narrative techniques
List of methods used to convey information in a narrative
Homeric simile
Comparison in the form of a lengthy simile