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Digression

Temporary shift of subject in speech or text

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Farmer's daughter

Stereotype in fiction

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Foreshadowing

Literary technique

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Exposition (narrative)

Background information within a narrative; one of four rhetorical modes

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Illeism

Act of referring to oneself in the third person

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Psittacism

Repetitive manner of speech

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Stream of unconsciousness

Narrative device used in literature

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Simulated Real Time
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Show, don't tell

Narrative technique

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Line (poetry)

Subdivision of a poem

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Flashback (narrative)

Interjected scene that takes a narrative back in time

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Quibble (plot device)

Reliance on exact conditions of an agreement

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Flashforward

Interjected scene that takes a narrative forward in time

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Red herring

Fallacious approach to mislead an audience

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List of narrative techniques

List of methods used to convey information in a narrative

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Homeric simile

Comparison in the form of a lengthy simile

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