Narrative Techniques
Point of view, foreshadowing, flashback, irony, unreliable narrator โ tools of storytelling
Key Facts
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Point of view: 1st person (I), 2nd person (you), 3rd person limited/omniscient โ determines reader's access
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Foreshadowing: hints of future events; Flashback: narrative jumps to the past; In medias res: starts in the middle
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Irony: verbal (saying opposite of meaning), dramatic (reader knows more than character), situational (unexpected outcome)
๐ Did you know? The concept of an "unreliable narrator" was named in 1961 but used by Chaucer 600 years earlier โ the technique is as old as storytelling itself
Quick Reference
Category
Literary Devices
Country
๐ Greece
Year / Era
350 BC
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Point of view, foreshadowing, flashback, irony, unreliable narrator โ tools of storytelling