Thrice told tales

Story

Plot

Metafiction

The lenses of psychic distance

Immediacy

Irony

Red herring

Suspension of disbelief

Names

Leitmotif

Avant-Garde

Cause and effect

Stream of consciousness

Legend

Vocabulary and syntax

Showing and telling

Dialogue

Interior monologue

Setting

Sentimentality

Title

Mechanics

Transitions

Foreshadowing

Insertion

Allegory

Epigram

fairy Tale

Farce

F__K

Intertextuality

Keyboard digression

Picaro

Sex in the story

Revision

Translation

Style

Premise

Flashback

Coincidence

Formula

Cliché

Sentence diagram

Hero (not)

Description

Repetition

Prologue

Unreliable narrators

Simile, Metaphor, and Conceit

Frame story

Detail

Dialect, Ain't it?

Epistolary novel

Diction

Symbolism

Point of view

Beginning

Suspense

Stereotype

Exposition

Research

Deus ex machina

Character

Pathetic fallacy

Bildungsroman

Denouement

Fable

Parable

Myth

Mise-en-Sc{u1EC1}nr

Roman à Clef

Ambiguity

Verisimilitude

Catharsis

Allusion

Archetype

Oxymoron

Structure

Tale

Short short story

Character

Character presentation (indirect method)

Character presentation (direct method)

Narrator

Subplot

Grotesque

Science fiction

Humors

Tragedy

Epilogue

Tour de Force

Introduction, preface, foreword

Appendix.