Narrative Writing: Narrative Writing, List 4

Narrative writing is writing that has a story, character, conflict, and other essential parts of a story. Learn about all of these essential parts by reviewing this list of vocabulary that will help you navigate a narrative.

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  1. literal
    limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
  2. figurative
    not literal
  3. imagery
    the use of vivid sensory language in literature
  4. sensory
    involving or derived from the senses
  5. rhetorical device
    a use of language that creates a literary effect
  6. metaphor
    a figure of speech that suggests a non-literal similarity
  7. simile
    a figure of speech expressing a resemblance between things
  8. irony
    incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  9. repetition
    the continued use of the same word or word pattern
  10. onomatopoeia
    using words that imitate the sound they denote
  11. personification
    representing an abstract quality or idea as a human
  12. symbol
    something visible that represents something invisible
  13. foreshadowing
    the act of providing vague advance indications
  14. flash-forward
    a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to a later event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
  15. flash
    a short vivid experience
  16. forward
    ahead in time or order or degree
  17. flashback
    a transition in a story to an earlier event or scene
  18. transition
    a passage or word that connects a topic to one that follows
  19. transitional
    of or relating to change from one state to another
  20. phrase
    an expression consisting of one or more words
Created on Tue Aug 09 10:15:15 EDT 2022 (updated Thu Aug 11 11:31:33 EDT 2022)

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