Category:Plot (narrative)

• Plot (narrative)

A

• Anagnorisis

B

• Babies switched at birth
• Backstory

C

• Catharsis
• Chekhov's gun
• Cliffhanger
• Climax (narrative)

D

• Dangler (plot device)
• Deathtrap (plot device)
• Deus ex machina
• Dionysian imitatio
• List of story structures
• Dramatistic pentad

E

• Eavesdropping
• Episodic storytelling
• Ethos

F

• Fabel
• Flashback (narrative)
• Flashforward
• Formula fiction
• Found footage (film technique)
• Frame story

H

• Hamartia
• Happy ending
• Hyleme

I

• Imitation (art)

L

• Lexis (Aristotle)

M

• MacGuffin
• Mimesis
• Mythos (Aristotle)

N

• Narrative hook

P

• Peripeteia
• Plot armor
• Plot device
• Plot hole
• Plot point
• Poetics (Aristotle)

Q

• Quest

R

• Red herring
• Reset button technique
• Reveal (narrative)
• Reverse chronology
• Roman à tiroirs

S

• Scene (performing arts)
• Scene and sequel
• Screenwriting
• Self-fulfilling prophecy
• Sexual tension
• Story arc
• Story generator
• Story within a story
• Subplot
• Suspension of disbelief

T

• Three-act structure
• Plot twist
• Types of fiction with multiple endings

V

• Vignette (literature)