Glossary Narrative Terms in Fiction and Film / Term
The reader's sense of where the story is headed. These can be generic (we can have a sense that we are reading a comedy that will have a happy ending before we know who the protagonists are) or specific to the particular story. Conversely, expectations operate with narrative desire to give us a sense of the genre of the narrative.
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