Traditionally, conflict is a major element of narrative or dramatic structure that creates challenges in a story by adding uncertainty as to whether the...

the audience. Narratives usually have main characters, protagonists, whom the story revolves around, who encounter a central conflict, or who gain knowledge...

In narrative, an internal conflict is the struggle occurring within a character's mind. Things such as what the character yearns for, but can't quite...

Work–family conflict, incompatible demands between the work and family roles of an individual Violence Armed conflict, often known as war Conflict (narrative),...

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological...

works of narrative, including all works of narrative fiction. Namely, all narratives include the elements of character, conflict, narrative mode, plot...

literary studies, a theme is a central topic, subject, or message within a narrative. Themes can be divided into two categories: a work's thematic concept...

with the end of the conflict. Kishōtenketsu is a structure mainly derived from classic Chinese, Korean, and Japanese narratives. Kishōtenketsu is divided...

In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect...

A frame story (also known as a frame tale, frame narrative, sandwich narrative, or intercalation) is a literary technique that serves as a companion piece...

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory...

type of conflict in fiction, of which The Terminator and The Matrix are popular examples. Conflict (narrative) for a list of narrative conflicts. "Types...

In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better...

doubt, or undecidedness. In a narrative work, suspense is the audience's excited anticipation about the plot or conflict (which may be heightened by a...

Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when...

A conflict continuum is a model or concept various social science researchers use when modeling conflict on a continuum from low to high-intensity, such...

conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998. Also known internationally as the Northern Ireland conflict,...

between characters or visual action. The narrative mode, which is sometimes also used as synonym for narrative technique, encompasses the set of choices...

recurs across a story; often, it helps develop other narrative elements such as theme or mood. A narrative motif can be created through the use of imagery...

Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about...

Narrative therapy (or narrative practice) is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help patients identify their values and the skills associated with...

A narrative technique (also, in fiction, a fictional device) is any of several storytelling methods the creator of a story uses, thus effectively relaying...

A networked narrative, also known as a network narrative or distributed narrative, is a language partitioned across a network of interconnected authors...

narratives. Kishōtenketsu is sometimes described as a narrative structure devoid of conflict, particularly when compared to common Western narrative structures...

Ludonarrative dissonance is the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the non-interactive elements and the narrative told through the gameplay...

A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates...

Creative nonfiction (also known as literary nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism or verfabula) is a genre of writing that uses literary...

ISSN 0362-6784. Krebs, Ronald R. (2015). "How Dominant Narratives Rise and Fall: Military Conflict, Politics, and the Cold War Consensus". International...

Narratology is the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect human perception. The term is an anglicisation of French...

narrative, or meta-narrative and grand narrative; French: métarécit or grand récit) is an overarching narrative about smaller historical narratives,...