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- Flashbacks and Chronology
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- Index All Along
- Ironic Index
- Luke, I Am Your Index
- MacGuffin
- Montages
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- Plot Twist
- Room Shuffle
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- You Hate What You Are
Category:Narrative Devices
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Narrative Devices move the story forward or organize a Scenes or sequence.
The following lists of narrative devices not categorized elsewhere.
Subcategories
This category has the following 46 subcategories, out of 46 total.
A
B
- Ball Index (10 P)
- Beginning Tropes (84 P)
C
- Character-Centered Episode (11 P)
- Chase Scene (88 P)
- Cut to the Index (28 P)
D
- Death Trap Tropes (41 P)
- Distraction Tropes (25 P)
- Dream Tropes (56 P)
E
- Escape Tropes (59 P)
F
- A Failure to Communicate (51 P)
- Flashbacks and Chronology (44 P)
G
- Genre Shift Episode (6 P)
I
- Illness Episode (4 P)
- Index All Along (13 P)
- Ironic Tropes (15 P)
L
- Luke, I Am Your Index (12 P)
M
- Magic Hat (4 P)
- Montages (60 P, 1 F)
- Mood Whiplash (18 P, 1 F)
N
- (Non-)Continuity Episode (16 P)
P
- Production Trivia Episode (13 P)
R
- Room Shuffle (12 P)
S
- Secret Identity Tropes (15 P)
- Short Con (5 P)
- Significant Date Episode (6 P)
- Stock Puzzle (23 P)
T
- The Tale (10 P)
- Twist Ending (26 P, 1 F)
U
- Unusual Activity Episode (7 P)
- Unusual Location Episode (13 P)
- Unusual Situation Episode (9 P)
Y
- You Hate What You Are (20 P)
Pages in category "Narrative Devices"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 674 total.
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C
D
- Dark Horse Victory
- Dead End Job
- Death Trap
- Decoy Getaway
- Dismantled MacGuffin
- Diving Save
- Do Not Go Gentle
- Documentary Episode
- Don't Ask, Just Run
- Don't Celebrate Just Yet
- Don't Split Us Up
- Doomed Hometown
- Door Jam
- Double Date
- Drama Bomb
- Dramatic Curtain Toss
- Dramatic Dislocation
- Dramatic Irony
- Dream Land
- Dream Sequence
- Dream Within a Dream
- Driving Question
- Driving Test Smashers
- Drunk on the Dark Side
- Dueling Hackers
- Dug in Deeper
- Dungeon Bypass
- Dying Like Animals
- Dysfunction Junction
E
- Earth All Along
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom
- Easily Forgiven
- Eat the Dog
- Eat the Evidence
- Egg MacGuffin
- Either/Or Prophecy
- Electrified Bathtub
- Elves Versus Dwarves
- Emergency Presidential Address
- Empathic Weapon
- Empty Cop Threat
- End-of-Episode Silliness
- Endangered Soufflé
- Enforced Cold War
- Engagement Challenge
- Engineered Public Confession
- Epic Fail
- Epiphanic Prison
- Et Tu, Brute?
- The Eternal Churchill
- Even the Dog Is Ashamed
- Everybody's Dead, Dave
- Everyone Knows Morse
- Everyone's in The Loop
- Evil Phone
- Evil Plan
- The Evils of Free Will
- Exact Words
- Exiled to an Island
- Expansion Pack World
- Expendable Clone
- Explaining the Soap
- Explosion Propulsion
- Explosive Leash
- Exposition of Immortality
- Extremely Short Timespan
- Eye Remember
F
- Failed a Spot Check
- Failure Is the Only Option
- Fainting Seer
- Fake Defector
- Fake Static
- Fall of the House of Cards
- Fallen-On-Hard-Times Job
- Fancy Dinner
- Fascists' Bed Time
- Faustian Rebellion
- Faux Death
- Fauxlosophic Narration
- Fauxshadow
- Feet of Clay
- Fence Painting
- Fiction Isn't Fair
- Field Promotion
- Fighting for Survival
- Final Exam Finale
- Fisher King
- Five Second Foreshadowing
- Fling a Light Into the Future
- Flying Dutchman
- Follow the White Rabbit
- Food Chains
- A Fool for a Client
- Forbidden Fruit
- Forced Prize Fight
- Foreigner for a Day
- Foreshadowing
- The Four Loves
- Framed Clue
- Framed for Heroism
- Framing the Guilty Party
- Frantic Object Concealment
- Freak-Out
- Freaky Friday Flip
- Frequently-Broken Unbreakable Vow
- "Friend or Idol?" Decision
- Friends All Along
- Frothy Mugs of Water
- Fur Against Fang
- Future Badass
- The Future Will Be Better
G
- Gambit Index
- Gambit Pileup
- Gambit Roulette
- Generic Graffiti
- Genocide Dilemma
- Geodesic Cast
- George Jetson Job Security
- George Washington Slept Here
- "Get Out of Jail Free" Card
- Getting Hot in Here
- Give Me a Sign
- Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!
- Go Among Mad People
- Go Back to the Source
- A God Am I
- Godzilla Threshold
- Going in Circles
- Going Postal
- Going to See the Elephant
- Golden Moment
- Golden Snitch
- Gossip Evolution
- Got Volunteered
- Grail in the Garbage
- Green Rooming
- Guess Who I'm Marrying
H
- Hannibal Lecture
- Happier Home Movie
- Harmful to Minors
- Haunted Headquarters
- Heart Trauma
- Heat Wave
- Heel Realization
- Hell on Earth
- Her Child, but Not His
- Here We Go Again
- Heroic Homage
- Heroic Vow
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- High Turnover Rate
- History Repeats
- Holding Out for a Hero
- Holding the Floor
- Homage
- Hope Springs Eternal
- Hostage Situation
- Hostile Weather
- Hourglass Plot
- How Did We Get Back Home?
- How Much Did You Hear?
- Human Ladder
- Human Resources
- Human Shield
- Humble Pie
- Humiliation Conga