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This is the person who tells the story, whether a character within the tale or an outside voice.
Difficulty: Easy- Narrator
- Protagonist
- Author
- Focalizer
This term describes the person within the narrative to whom the narrator addresses the story.
Difficulty: Medium- Implied reader
- Audience
- Narratee
- Listener
This Genettian concept describes the same event narrated multiple times from different perspectives.
Difficulty: Hard- Repetitive frequency
- Iterative narration
- Multiple focalization
- Polytopic narration
This term describes the sequence of events as they actually happen chronologically in a story's world.
Difficulty: Easy- Plot
- Discourse
- Story
- Narrative
This Russian Formalist concept involves making the familiar seem strange to renew perception.
Difficulty: Medium- Alienation effect
- Defamiliarization
- Estrangement
- Cognitive dissonance
This narratological term describes telling a recurring event only once in narrative.
Difficulty: Hard- Singulative narration
- Iterative narration
- Summary narration
- Habitual narration
The central character around whom the story revolves and who typically drives the action.
Difficulty: Easy- Protagonist
- Antagonist
- Deuteragonist
- Foil
This narrative technique has a character narrate a story to other characters within the story.
Difficulty: Medium- Intradiegetic narration
- Metadiegetic narration
- Hypodiegetic narration
- Embedded narration
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