Narrative structure
What Narrative structure means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The underlying organisation of a story, analysed in narratology rather than retold as plot, including the goal, obstacles and resolution.
The organised arrangement of a story's events and the way that arrangement is communicated to an audience.
Topics that use Narrative structure
- Narratology (AQA A-Level)
- Narratology - Todorov's ideas and theories on narratology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Audience positioning through narrative
- Causality and event linkage
- Chronology versus causality
- Conformity and departure from structure
- Diegesis
- Diegetic and non-diegetic sound
- Disruption and repair
- Equilibrium
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