"Narrative momentum" refers to the driving force or energy that keeps a story moving forward. It is the sense of progress or development in a story that keeps readers or viewers engaged and interested in what happens next.
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«narrative»
«momentum»
Sentences with «narrative momentum»
- A deliberately paced literary film that takes too long to build narrative momentum and explore its central dramatic conflicts. (metacritic.com)
- But there's also no attempt at narrative momentum from movie to movie anymore. (chron.com)
- The director's objective is to emphasize drama over suspense and, as a result, the kind of fast pace and narrative momentum often associated with a thriller is absent here. (reelviews.net)
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