• Storytelling‎ (13 C, 69 P)

A

• Action (genre)‎ (3 C, 6 P)
• Anthropomorphism‎ (9 C, 18 P)

C

• Comparative mythology‎ (14 C, 89 P)
• Conflict (narrative)‎ (4 P)
• Continuity (fiction)‎ (16 C, 48 P)

F

• False documents‎ (5 C, 17 P)
• Fiction‎ (41 C, 92 P)
• Fiction with multiple narrators‎ (1 C, 4 P)
• Fiction with unreliable narrators‎ (6 C, 330 P)
• Fiction-writing mode‎ (5 C, 12 P)
• Fictional characters by role in the narrative structure‎ (14 C, 15 P)
• First-person narrative fiction‎ (1 C, 13 P)
• Narrative forms‎ (17 C, 27 P)
• Frame stories‎ (8 C, 69 P)

G

• Genres‎ (23 C, 29 P)

I

• Interactive narrative‎ (3 C, 14 P)

J

• Journalism‎ (29 C, 94 P)

L

• Lists of stories‎ (1 C, 43 P)
• Literary archetypes‎ (19 C, 36 P)
• Literary forgeries‎ (7 C, 154 P)
• Literary motifs‎ (6 C, 32 P)

M

• Metafiction‎ (4 C, 12 P)
• Monologues‎ (1 C, 42 P)

N

• Narrative techniques‎ (25 C, 117 P)
• Narrative units‎ (3 C, 6 P)
• Non-narrative films‎ (1 C, 79 P)
• Nonlinear narrative fiction‎ (3 C, 4 P)

O

• Oral literature‎ (7 C, 26 P)

P

• Parts of the narrative structure‎ (4 C, 1 P)
• Narrative poems‎ (8 C, 106 P)

R

• Rhetoric‎ (18 C, 276 P)

S

• Second-person narrative fiction‎ (2 C, 2 P)
• Setting‎ (5 C, 13 P)
• Shared universes‎ (29 C, 30 P)
• Stock characters‎ (28 C, 116 P)
• Stream of consciousness fiction‎ (1 C, 1 P)
• Style (fiction)‎ (8 C, 36 P)

T

• Third-person narrative fiction‎ (1 C, 7 P)
• Traditional narratives of indigenous peoples of the Americas‎ (1 C, 10 P)
• Traditional stories‎ (14 C, 22 P)
• Tropes‎ (8 C, 33 P)

W

• Worldbuilding‎ (8 C, 4 P)

• Narratology

*

• Narrative

A

• Action fiction
• The American Monomyth
• Anagnorisis
• Archetype
• Aristeia
• Article (publishing)
• Artistic license
• Authorial intent
• Authoritarian literature

B

• Balanced sentence
• Beat (filmmaking)
• Big Dumb Object
• Body swap

C

• Catharsis
• Central conceit
• Character (arts)
• Character arc
• Characterization
• Childhood secret club
• Climax (narrative)
• Clip show
• Comic book death
• Conflict (narrative)
• Continuity (fiction)
• Contrast (literary)

D

• Deathtrap (plot device)
• Deictic field and narration
• Description
• Deus ex machina
• Dialogue in writing
• Diegesis
• Dionysian imitatio
• Documentary practice
• List of story structures
• Dramatica (software)
• Dramatistic pentad

E

• Episodic storytelling
• Epistolary novel
• État second
• Ethos
• Eucatastrophe
• Exercises in Style

F

• Fabula and syuzhet
• False document
• Feminist rhetoric
• Fiction writing
• Fiction-writing mode
• First-person narrative
• Flashing arrow
• Focal character
• Focalisation
• Formula fiction
• Frame story

G

• Genre
• Genre studies

H

• Had I but known
• Hadith of Rayyan-bin Shabib
• Hamartia
• Happy ending
• Hybrid novel
• Hylistics
• Hysteron proteron

I

• Iceberg theory
• Idiot plot
• Imandar Daurey
• Imitation (art)
• In medias res
• Intercalary chapter
• It was a dark and stormy night

J

• Journal of Narrative Theory

K

• Kishōtenketsu

L

• Legend
• Lexia (hypertext)
• Lexis (Aristotle)
• Literary forgery
• List of narrative techniques
• Ludonarrative dissonance

M

• MacGuffin
• Marriage plot
• Mary Sue
• Meta-reference
• Metafiction
• Metanoia (rhetoric)
• Metaphoric criticism
• Mimesis
• Mode (literature)
• Monologue
• Moral
• Motive (law)
• Myth of redemptive violence
• Mythos (Aristotle)

N

• Narration
• Narrative (journal)
• Narrative designer
• Narrative environment
• Narrative history
• Narrative hook
• Narrative network
• Narrative of video games
• Narrative paradigm
• Narrative poetry
• Narrativity
• Narreme
• New adult fiction
• Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp.
• Non sequitur (literary device)
• List of feature films described as non-narrative
• Nonlinear narrative

P

• Pace (narrative)
• Parallel novel
• Paratext
• Peripeteia
• Personal narrative
• Pitch (filmmaking)
• Plot device
• Plot drift
• Plot point
• Plot twist
• Poetic justice
• Poetics (Aristotle)
• Polyphony (literature)
• Premise (narrative)
• Psychological thriller
• Public rhetoric
• Purple prose

Q

• Quest

R

• Real time (media)
• Representation (arts)
• Reverse chronology
• Revisionism (fictional)
• Rhetoric
• Rhetorical modes
• Rule of three (writing)

S

• Scene (performing arts)
• Scene and sequel
• Self-insertion
• Setting (narrative)
• The Seven Basic Plots
• Shared universe
• Shooting script
• Show, don't tell
• Spec script
• Spinoff (media)
• Stand-up comedy
• Stock character
• Story arc
• Story generator
• Story structure
• Stream of unconsciousness
• Subplot
• Suspension of disbelief
• Syntagma (linguistics)

T

• Third-person limited narrative
• Third-person omniscient narrative
• The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations
• Three-act structure
• Tiffany Problem
• Title character
• Todorov's narrative theory of equilibrium
• Traditional story
• Traitté de l'origene des romans
• Transportation theory (psychology)
• TV Tropes
• Type scene

V

• Verisimilitude (fiction)

W

• Wheel of fire
• List of works set within one day
• Worldbuilding
• Writing style