The narrative mode may be considered a literary device, such as the use of stream-of-consciousness narrative.

He has also suggested that there are two primary modes of thought: the narrative mode and the paradigmatic mode.

The separation between these narrative modes is rather a stylistic than a thematic one.

Third-person narration provides the greatest flexibility to the author and thus is the most commonly used narrative mode in literature.

The film runs in a narrative mode.

She also changes her narrative mode according to the demands of the story.

The book is written in the present tense, a difficult and potentially stagey narrative mode.

These two different narrative modes used throughout the book allow the reader to observe the characters and situations from slightly different perspectives.

Instead, keep producing variations by deliberately altering either narrative mode or point of entrance into the story (more on this to come).

This narrative mode is one that can be developed by an author for a number of reasons, usually to deceive the reader or audience.