Answer:
The author may use the following devices to make the narrative effective:
- Reverse Chronological Narrative
- Chronological Narrative
- Breaking the Fourth Wall
- Epistolic or Diary
- Real-Time Narrative
- Framing Story
- Mockumentary or Documentary
- Framing Story Within a Framing Story
- Stream of Consciousness
Explanation:
The technique through which a story is narrated is known as narrative devices. They refer to the person who is telling the narrative and how they are doing it and serve as a set of guidelines for telling your story.
A list of narrative devices is provided below:
1. The Reverse Chronological order Narrative
It is the polar opposite of chronological storytelling in which the scenes are in reverse chronological order. That is, the story starts at the end and then goes backward in time, telling the story in reverse order.
2. The Chronological Narrative
In this events take place in sequential order. Flashbacks, recollections, and dreams can also be utilized to provide information and present events to the reader at the appropriate time, but the narrative will quickly revert to chronological order.
3. A Breaking of the Fourth Wall Narrative
The storyteller may directly address the reader by using phrases like "dear reader".
4. Epistolic or Diary
It allows the reader to be addressed by the narrator in the form of a diary or letter.
5. A Real-Time Narrative
It is a chronological story in which one hour of events corresponds to one hour of the story.
6. Framing Story
It is a narrative device in which a story within a story is connected in some way.
7. Mockumentary or Documentary
This device presupposes that the characters are being followed by a documentary team as they go through their (fictional) lives. Interspersed interviews and infrequent encounters where the characters gaze directly into the camera allow characters in the story to address the audience directly.
8. Framing Story Within a Framing Story Narrative
Margaret Atwood's Blind Assassin takes the framing narrative a step further by layering her plot with a story within a story within a story.
9. Stream of Consciousness
It's a literary style in which the story is told from the perspective of the first-person narrator. The reader is immersed in the main character's thoughts and senses.
