presentation on narrative theories

1. Narrative Theories

2. Exposition:
o Provides background information needed to properly understand the
story. It allows you to learn about the story, characters and setting.
Rising Action:
o The basic internal conflict is complicated by the introduction of
related secondary conflicts, including various obstacles that
frustrate the protagonist ‘s attempt to reach his goal.
Climax:
o Marks a change for the better or the worse , in the protagonists affairs.
Falling Action:
o Conflict between the protagonist and antagonist unravels, with the
protagonist winning or losing against the antagonist.

3. Denouement:
o Comprises events between the falling action and the actual ending scene of
drama or narrative where conflicts are resolved. Untying of complexities.
Diegesis:
o The internal world created by the story that the characters themselves and
encounter. (Hence ‘non-diegetic’ occurring in the outside world)
Story:
o All events referred both explicitly in a narrative and inferred. The backstory
to the plot.
Plot:
o The events directly incorporated into the action of the text and the order
which they are presented.