The findings (Boyd, Blackburn, & Pennebaker, 2020) on "The Narrative Arc: Revealing Core Narrative ... (1) staging, (2) plot progression, and (3) cognitive tension. Function words used in the ...

‘I suppose—this sounds stupid, but I suppose I thought there’d be more of a narrative arc ... is it always in a narrative way, with a plot that leads from one point to another?

While the plot of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows for instance, is “nested and complicated,” they wrote, “the emotional arc associated with each sub-narrative is clearly visible.” ...