Category:Narrative Devices
Narrative Devices move the story forward or organize a Scene or sequence. These represent some of the most basic tropes, which will be present in lots of works.
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 675 total.
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- Plot Technology
- Plot Twist
- Plot-Driven Breakdown
- Plot-Sensitive Latch
- Plummet Perspective
- Poison and Cure Gambit
- Poisoned Chalice Switcheroo
- Police Are Useless
- Poor Communication Kills
- Porn Stash
- Portal Pool
- Possessive Paradise
- Posthumous Character
- Powder Keg Crowd
- Power Fantasy
- Practical Voice Over
- Trope Workshop:Predictable Countdown
- Premature Eulogy
- Press-Ganged
- Pressure Point
- Priceless Paperweight
- Princess for a Day
- Promoted to Scapegoat
- Protocol Peril
- Pseudo Crisis
- Psychological Horror
- Puberty Superpower
- The Public Domain Channel
- Public Execution
- Punk in the Trunk
- The Purge
- Put Down Your Gun and Step Away
- Put Me In, Coach
R
- Rage Against the Author
- Rage Against the Mentor
- Rash Equilibrium
- Read the Freaking Manual
- Reality Bleed
- Rear Window Witness
- Red Herring Twist
- Regular Caller
- Reincarnation (trope)
- Reincarnation Romance
- Relationship Reboot
- Relationship-Salvaging Disaster
- Religious Russian Roulette
- Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?
- Rescue Romance
- Restrained Revenge
- Resurrected Romance
- Retcon
- Revision
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
- Rewrite
- Rhetorical Request Blunder
- Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
- Right Hand Versus Left Hand
- Right on the Tick
- Right Place, Right Time, Wrong Reason
- Ripped from the Headlines
- Ripped From the Phone Book
- Road Show
- Rock Bottom
- Room Disservice
- Rules of Orphan Economics
S
- Sadistic Choice
- Sarcasm Failure
- Scheherazade Gambit
- Schmuck Banquet
- School Play
- Science Is Bad
- Science Is Wrong
- Screaming Birth
- Screw Destiny
- Scully Syndrome
- Scylla and Charybdis
- Sealed Evil in a Duel
- Second Hand Storytelling
- Second Place Is for Winners
- Second Prize
- Secret Identity
- Secret Legacy
- Secret Path
- Secret Test of Character
- Seeking Sanctuary
- Send Me Back
- Sequel Reset
- Serious Business
- Set a Mook to Kill a Mook
- Shamed by a Mob
- Shameful Strip
- Shaming the Mob
- Sharing a Body
- Shell Game
- Shock Collar
- Short Cuts Make Long Delays
- Short Distance Phone Call
- Show Within a Show
- Shower of Angst
- Sidelong Glance Biopic
- Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids
- Silly Rabbit, Romance Is for Kids
- Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters
- Slippery Soap
- Slobs Versus Snobs
- Slow Clap
- Slumber Party
- Slumber Party Ploy
- Small Town Rivalry
- Smart Ball
- Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!
- Sneaky Departure
- Snowball Lie
- Snowed In
- So Much for Stealth
- So You Want To/Mind Screw the Audience
- Somebody Set Up Us the Bomb
- Something Only They Would Say
- Sorkin Relationship Moment
- Sorry to Interrupt
- Sound Stone
- Speak Friend and Enter
- Speak of the Devil
- Speed Dating
- Spontaneous Crowd Formation
- Stable Time Loop
- Stag Party
- Staring Contest
- Status Quo Game Show
- Stay on the Path
- Staying with Friends
- Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee
- Stolen Good, Returned Better
- Stolen MacGuffin Reveal
- Stopped Clock
- Stuff Blowing Up
- Stuffed Into a Locker
- Stuffed Into a Trashcan
- Suckiness Is Painful
- Sudden Videogame Moment
- Sugary Malice
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum
- Summoning Ritual
- Super-Detailed Fight Narration
- Supernatural Aid
- Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious
- Survivalist Stash
- Survived the Beginning
- Suspended Animation
- Suspiciously Specific Sermon
- Sweet Polly Oliver
- Switched At Birth
- Sympathetic POV
T
- Take a Third Option
- Take Over the World
- Talking in Bed
- Tap on the Head
- The Tape Knew You Would Say That
- Team Rocket Wins
- Team Spirit
- Televised Torture
- Temporal Paradox
- Temporary Blindness
- Tempting Fate
- Ten Minutes in the Closet
- There Is No Try
- These Questions Three
- They Would Cut You Up
- The Thing That Would Not Leave
- Things Get Real
- Think Happy Thoughts
- Thinks Like a Romance Novel
- This Is as Far as I Go
- This Is My Story
- This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself
- This Is Your Brain on Evil
- This Means War
- Three-Act Structure
- Thrown Down a Well
- Thwarted Escape
- Tied-Together Shoelace Trip
- Time Travel
- To Be Continued Right Now
- To the Pain
- Tomato Surprise
- Tongue-Tied
- Total Eclipse of the Plot
- Tragic Mistake
- Trans-Redemptive Symbol
- Transformation Ray
- Trap Door
- Trap Door Fail
- Trap Is the Only Option
- The Treachery of Images
- Treasure Map
- Troll Bridge
- Trust Password
- Twisted Echo Cut
- Two Girls and a Guy
- Two Guys and a Girl