A detailed account of incidents, real or imaginary, is called narration.
Narrations of fact include history, biography, and travels. Narrations of imaginary incidents are called fiction or stories.
THE LEADING PRINCIPLES OF NARRATION.
1. The order in which the events occurred must be followed.
2. Every event must grow out of a preceding one.
3. When possible, the whole narration should centre in one principal event.
4. When there is more than one important event, one is brought up to a certain point, then dropped until the others reach this particular place in the narrative.
5. The scene and the actors should seldom change, and never without intimation.
6. Only the prominent points are related, the reader will infer the rest.