Narratology

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8 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Narratology.

• Epilogue — A concluding section situated after a narrative’s main action that supplies closure, later consequences or a bridge to subsequent installments from within the represented world.
• Exposition (narrative) — Background information inserted into a narrative so readers can understand its setting, characters, prior events or governing context.
• Focalisation — The narratological relation determining through whose perceptual, cognitive, or informational position narrative events are selected and presented.
• Free Indirect Discourse — A mode of represented speech, thought, or perception in which narrator-aligned person and tense coexist with a character's deictic center, idiom, expressivity, and judgments, without quotation or an overt subordinating report frame.
• Narrative Characterization — The construction of a storyworld character by explicitly ascribing properties and by prompting audiences to infer them from actions, speech, appearance, consciousness, setting, and performance cues.
• Narreme — A minimal functional unit of narrative structure defined by its contribution to an event, state, transition, or relation in a story rather than by sentence length.
• Plot (narrative) — The organized sequence and causal arrangement of events in a narrative.
• Posthumous narrative — Let a character narrate from a position established as after that character's death, creating an impossible or conventionally licensed retrospective voice with expanded temporal knowledge.