FictionUne fiction est un espace plus souvent imaginaire que réaliste qui peut servir de cadre pour le récit d'une histoire. Les personnages qui y sont décrits sont dits « personnages fictifs ». Une œuvre de fiction peut être orale ou écrite, du domaine de la littérature, du cinéma, du théâtre ou de l'audiovisuel (la radio, la télévision, le jeu vidéo et voire d'autres formes qui se développent sur internet). Pour les contes ou le médiéval fantastique (heroic fantasy), il ne s'agit pas pour le lecteur/spectateur de croire temporairement en la véridicité des faits présentés.
Mood (literature)In literature, mood is the atmosphere of the narrative. Mood is created by means of setting (locale and surroundings in which the narrative takes place), attitude (of the narrator and of the characters in the narrative), and descriptions. Though atmosphere and setting are connected, they may be considered separately to a degree. Atmosphere is the aura of mood that surrounds the story. It is to fiction what the sensory level is to poetry or mise-en-scene is to cinema.
NarrationNarration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events. Narration is a required element of all written stories (novels, short stories, poems, memoirs, etc.), presenting the story in its entirety.
Plot (narrative)In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect. The causal events of a plot can be thought of as a series of events linked by the connector "and so". Plots can vary from the simple—such as in a traditional ballad—to forming complex interwoven structures, with each part sometimes referred to as a subplot or imbroglio. Plot is similar in meaning to the term storyline.
