- Linear – A continuous sequence
- Chronological – It is followed in a specific timeline
- Sequential – specific sequence to tell the story
- Circular structure – begins at the end and finishes at the start
- Time based – temporarily based
- Narrative arc – A path a story follows
- Freytag’s Pyramid – outlines the 7 key steps in storytelling, exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution and denouement.
- exposition – Gives background knowledge at the beginning
- inciting incident – event the engages the audience
- rising action – a dramatic plot to proceed the climax
- climax – builds the tension
- falling action – resolution of the major conflict
- resolution – how it is resolved
- denouement – conclusion
- Beginning / middle / end – the plot
- Equilibrium – everything is balanced at the beginning
- Disruption – changing something over and over again
- Transgression – often disequilibrium is caused by societal / moral / ethical transgression (ie challenging Aristotelian virtues)
- Peripeteia – moves different plot
- Anagnoresis – when realises their final flaw
- Catharsis – can purge feelings
- The 3 Unities: Action, Time, Place – the plot
- flashback / flash forward – go back in time to a specific past
- Foreshadowing – when you can predict something is about to happen
- Ellipsis –
- Pathos – emotion
- Empathy – other people’s emotions to see what they are thinking or feeling.
- diegetic / non-diegetic – the sound that comes from the film, and sound that comes from our world.
- slow motion – a slow movement to add tension to a scene
- In Media Res – starting in mid-action
- Metanarratives – drawing attention to the process of storytelling
- Quest narratives – describes the authors desire
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