NARRATIVE

A narrative uses tools such as flashbacks, flash-forwards, and transitions that often
build to a climax. The focus of a narrative is the plot. When creating a narrative an
author must determine their purpose, consider their audience, establish a point of
view, use dialogue, and organize the narrative. A narrative is usually arranged
chronologically

A narrative or story is a construct created in a suitable format (written, spoken, poetry, prose,
images, song, theater, or dance) that describes a sequence of fictional or non-fictional events. It
derives from the Latin verb narrare, which means "to recount" and is related to the adjective
gnarus, meaning "knowing" or "skilled".[1] (Ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European
root gn-, "to know".[2]) The word "story" may be used as a synonym of "narrative", but can also
be used to refer to the sequence of events described in a narrative. A narrative can also be told by
a character within a larger narrative.
Along with exposition, argumentation, and description, narration (broadly defined) is one of four
rhetorical modes of discourse. More narrowly defined, narration is the fiction-writing mode
whereby the narrator is communicating directly to the reader.
Stories are an important aspect of culture. Many works of art and most works of literature tell
stories. Most of the humanities involve stories. Stories are of ancient origin, existing in ancient
Egypt, ancient Greek, Chinese, and Indian culture. Stories are also a ubiquitous component of
human communication, used as parables and examples used to illustrate points. Storytelling was
probably one of the earliest forms of entertainment. Narrative may also refer to psychological
processes in self-identity, memory and meaning-making.