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 674 total.
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- I Will Find You
- I'm a Humanitarian
- Identical Grandson
- If I Can Only Move
- If You Won't, I Will
- Ignored Vital News Reports
- Impersonating the Evil Twin
- Impossible Task
- Inadvertent Entrance Cue
- Innocent Inaccurate
- Innocent Innuendo
- Instant Expert
- Insulted Awake
- Intercontinuity Crossover
- Internal Homage
- Internalized Categorism
- Interrogating the Dead
- Interrogation by Vandalism
- Interrupted Suicide
- Intimidating Revenue Service
- Intrepid Fictioneer
- Invisible Subtle Difference
- Invisible to Adults
- Invisible to Normals
- Ironic Inversion
- Irrevocable Message
- Is This Thing Still On?
- It Must Be Mine
- It Was a Gift
- It Was with You All Along
- It's All Junk
- It's Probably Nothing
- It's the Journey That Counts
J
K
L
- Lamaze Class
- The Laws of Magic
- Leaf Boat
- Leaning on the Fourth Wall
- Least Is First
- Leave Him to Me
- Leave the Camera Running
- Leno Device
- Leonine Contract
- Lethally Expensive
- A Light in the Distance
- Limited Destination Time
- List of Transgressions
- The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
- Living a Double Life
- Living on Borrowed Time
- Living with the Villain
- Locked in a Freezer
- Locked in a Room
- Locked Out of the Fight
- Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard
- Look Ma, No Plane
- Loser Gets the Girl
- Loser Has Your Back
- Lowered Monster Difficulty
- Luke, I Am Your Father
- Luke, You Are My Father
- Lured into a Trap
M
- MacGuffin
- MacGuffin Delivery Service
- MacGuffin Location
- Made of Temptation
- Magical Girl Queenliness Test
- Magical Guide
- Magnetic Plot Device
- The Main Characters Do Everything
- Major Injury Underreaction
- Make a Wish
- Manufacturing Victims
- Marketeers vs. Engineers
- Mating Dance
- Matryoshka Object
- Meaningful Echo
- Medal of Dishonor
- Media Mirroring
- Melodramatic Pause
- Memento MacGuffin
- Mercy Lead
- Message in a Bottle
- A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read
- Mind Rape
- Mind Screwdriver
- Mineral MacGuffin
- Minor Flaw, Major Breakup
- Miracle Rally
- Miranda Rights
- Misfit Mobilization Moment
- Mistaken for Badass
- Mistaken Identity
- "Mister Sandman" Sequence
- Mistimed Revival
- Montages
- Morton's Fork
- Moses in the Bulrushes
- Movie Twist List
- Mundane Solution
- Mushroom Samba
- Must Have Nicotine
- Mutilation Interrogation
- The Mutiny
- My Fist Forgives You
- My Greatest Failure
- My Greatest Second Chance
- Mysterious Employer
- Mysterious Note
- Mythology Gag
N
- Narrator All Along
- Naughty Birdwatching
- Near-Death Clairvoyance
- Near-Death Experience
- Necessary Fail
- Needle in a Stack of Needles
- Never Split the Party
- Newspaper Dating
- Niche Network
- No Fourth Wall
- No MacGuffin, No Winner
- No Party Like a Donner Party
- Non Sequitur
- Noodle Incident
- Not a Date
- Not Afraid of You Anymore
- Not as You Know Them
- Not Cheating Unless You Get Caught
- Not Helping Your Case
- Not Important to This Episode Camp
- Not in Front of the Parrot
- Not in My Contract
- Not My Driver
- Not My Lucky Day
- Not What I Signed on For
- Not What It Looks Like
- The Not-Secret
- Notable Non Sequitur
O
- Obfuscating Stupidity
- Oblivious Adoption
- Oblivious Guilt Slinging
- Off to Boarding School
- Offered the Crown
- Offhand Backhand
- Offing the Offspring
- Oh, Cisco
- Ominous Multiple Screens
- One Degree of Separation
- One Judge to Rule Them All
- One Side of the Story
- One-Way Trip
- Only Cool People Matter
- Only Smart People May Pass
- Only the Knowledgable May Pass
- Only the Worthy May Pass
- Or Was It a Dream?
- Orphan's Ordeal
- Orphan's Plot Trinket
- Orphean Rescue
- Out Giving Birth; Back in Two Minutes
- Out-of-Clothes Experience
- Overcome Their Differences
- Overly Long Gag
P
- Padding
- Parental Favoritism
- Party Scheduling Gambit
- Passed Over Promotion
- Passive Rescue
- Pater Familicide
- Pay Phone
- Penultimate Outburst
- People Jars
- Permission to Speak Freely?
- Perpetual Poverty
- Perspective Magic
- Perspective Reversal
- Perverted Sniffing
- Phlebotinum Battery
- Phone Booth
- Pinocchio Syndrome
- Playing Both Sides
- Playing Nice for Now
- Playing Sick
- Plot Coupon
- Plot Detour
- Plot Device
- Plot Parallel