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Narrative

• Universal
• Applied Phlebotinum
• Characterization
• Characters
• Characters As Device
• Dialogue
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• Narrative Devices
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Topical Tropes

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Tropes about The Narrator— the helpful invisible man that fills in the blanks of the story. Compare Dialogue. See also Point of View, Framing Device. Do not confuse with Narrative Tropes.

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Tropes:

• The All Concealing I
• All Knowing Singing Narrator
• ...And That Little Girl Was Me
• Anonymous Killer Narrator
• All First Person Narrators Write Like Novelists
• Captain's Log
• Cozy Voice For Catastrophes
• Delayed Narrator Introduction
• Epistolary Novel
• Fauxlosophic Narration
• First Person Perspective
• First-Person Smartass
• Gender Neutral Writing
• Greek Chorus
• Infallible Narrator
• Inner Monologue
• Interactive Narrator
• The Ishmael
• Lemony Narrator
• Let Me Tell You A Story
• Mr. Exposition
• Narrating The Present
• Narration Echo
• Narrator
• Narrator All Along
• Nostalgic Narrator
• Opening Monologue
• Opening Narration
• Opening Scroll
• Present Tense Narrative
• Private Eye Monologue
• Second Person Narration
• Sidelong Glance Biopic
• So Once Again, the Day Is Saved
• The Storyteller
• Switching P.O.V.
• Undead Author
• Unreliable Narrator
• Unreliable Voiceover
• War Was Beginning
• The Watson

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What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?

Narrative Tropes

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