List of narrative techniques

A narrative technique (known among literary fictional narratives as a literary technique, literary device, or fictional device) is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want—in other words, a strategy used when planning and creating a narrative structure to relay information to the audience and particularly to develop the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complex, or interesting. Some scholars also call this technique a narrative mode, though this term can also more narrowly refer to the particular technique of using a commentary to tell a story. Narrative techniques are distinguished from narrative elements, which exist inherently in all works of narrative.