NARRATIVE

A novel is a narrative (= a story) long enough to fill a complete book . The story may be told by a first person narrator , who is a chracter in the story and relates what happens to himself or herself , or there may be an omniscient narrator who relates what happens to all the characters in the third person .

A short story is a story that is short enough to be read from beginning to end without stopping .

The denouement is the end of a book or play in which everything is explained or settled. It is often used to talk about mystery or detective stories .

Stream of conciousness is a style of writting used in novels that shows the continuous flow of a character's thought and feelings without using the usual methods of description or conversation .It was used particularly in the twentieth century by writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf .