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Narrative technique
Foreshadowing
Planting early hints or signs of what is to come, preparing the reader for later developments.
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Unreliable narrator
Frame story
In medias res
Stream of consciousness
Epistolary narration
Multiple points of view
Flashback
Dramatic irony
Immersive worldbuilding
Subjective or unstable reality
Second-person narration
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