logo

Video encyclopedia

Literary technique

3:20

Narrative Techniques

3:36

Six Creative Ways To Brainstorm Ideas

2:45

Using Literary Devices to Enhance Storytelling - mysimpleshow

1:34

Drama Techniques & Body Language : Theatre 101

3:20

How filmmakers manipulate our emotions using color

A narrative technique is any of several specific methods the creator of a narrative uses to convey what they want—in other words, a strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting. Literary techniques are distinguished from literary elements, which exist inherently in works of writing.
  • Types