Hypernym

• RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.

Hyponym

• AUCTORIAL MOTIVATIONNARRATOLOGICAL DEVICE , the analysis of the 'why' of the story in terms of the aims and intentions of a character.
• NARRATORIAL MOTIVATION
• ANALEPSISNARRATOLOGICAL DEVICE the form of a narration of an event which took place before the point in the story where it is told.
• ANTICIPATORY DOUBLETThe forshadowing of a coming event, theme, or scene by a minor replica of itself.
• APPOSITIVE SUMMARYA summary which both recapitulates the action of the preceding scene and suggests the action is continuing.
• CATCH-WORD TECHNIQUERepetition, often at the beginning of a speech, of a word or expression from the interlocutor's speech, sometimes with a different tone or meaning.
• CHARACTER DOUBLETIntroduction of two characters who are presented as similar in personalithy and actions.
• CHARACTERISATIONEKPHRASIS presenting in some detail the characteristic features of a personality including hi physical appearance, biography, and personality traits.
• CHARACTER LANGUAGEREPETITIO of words or phrases which are typical of or characteristic for a character.
• DOMINO FORMREPETITIO or VARIATION in a new speech of a word or expression with which the preceding speech ended. (For example in a pattern like ABC C'DE E'FGH etc.)
• EMBEDDED STORYEmbedding a new story Y in an ongoing story X.
  • MIRROR STORY　An EMBEDDED STORY which in its entirety reflects the main story.
• EPIC REGRESSIONHaving mentioned an event, person or object, moving back in time to explain the background of the event, person, or object.
• FOCALISERUse of a personality in a narrative as the person thorough whose eyes the event and persons of a narrative are 'seen'.
• DRAMATISING COUNTERFACTUAL"There X would have happened, if not in fact Y had occurred.
• INDIRECT DIALOGUEA talks to B about character C or about thigns which concern C (and which he intends C to hear) without addressing C.
• INTERLACE TECHNIQUEThe technique of interweaving different storylines or scenes through regular switches between them.
• INTERRUPTION TECHNIQUEAn action of idea is introduced, suspended for a while, and then resumed and completed.
• NARRATEEMention of the intended auchience or readership of a narrative.
• PERIPHRASTIC DENOMINATIONANTONOMASIA: A reference to a character not by proper name but by a form of indirect description.
• PROLEPSISFORESHADOWING: the narration of an event whih will take place later than the point in the story where it is told.
• RETARDATIONA slowing down of the narrative rhythm or the postponement of an announced event.
• SEEDHINT: the insertion of a piece of information, the relevance of which will only later become clear. (Very common in Chinese novels.)
• TYPE-SCENEA recurrent block of narrative with an identifiable structure and often an identical language, typically of recurrent human activities.