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Narrative technique
Dramatic irony
A situation in which the audience knows something crucial that one or more characters do not.
More narrative techniques
Unreliable narrator
Frame story
In medias res
Stream of consciousness
Epistolary narration
Multiple points of view
Foreshadowing
Flashback
Immersive worldbuilding
Subjective or unstable reality
Second-person narration
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