Glossary

Anti-Spoiler Protocol

Also known as: Anti-spoiler filter

The system Fabulè uses to filter information according to the reader's position, preventing revelations about later events.

Contextual recap

Also known as: Contextual summary

A summary built around the chapter reached that recalls only what the reader should already know.

Maps, genealogies, and timelines

Representations that help readers navigate the places, family ties, characters, and events of a complex story.

Natural dialogue

The ability to ask open questions about a book and receive answers phrased clearly and consistently with the context.

Reading memory

The feature that preserves reading context and helps recall characters, relationships, and previously encountered events.

Reading position

The exact place the reader has reached in a book, used to calibrate answers and recaps.

Character relationships

The family, emotional, social, or conflicting ties that connect characters.

Narrative arc

The path through which a story, conflict, or character develops over the course of a book.

Narrative tension

The emotional pressure created by conflicts, dangers, or questions that remain unanswered.

Plot

The events and cause-and-effect relationships that build a story.

Subplot

A secondary story that develops alongside the main plot.

Suspense

The feeling of anticipation and uncertainty that makes readers want to discover what happens next.

Timeline

Also known as: Narrative timeline

The chronological order of events, which may differ from the order in which they are told.

Worldbuilding

The construction of a story world, including its places, cultures, rules, history, peoples, and systems.

Character identification

The process through which readers understand or emotionally experience a character's point of view.

Cognitive attention

The mental focus needed to follow events, characters, goals, and consequences.

Cognitive map

Also known as: Narrative map

The mental representation readers build to connect characters, places, events, and relationships.

Emotional engagement

The emotional bond readers develop with characters and with what happens in the story.

Fragmented reading

Reading spread across short sessions or long breaks, which can make the context harder to remember.

Narrative immersion

The feeling of being deeply absorbed in a story and temporarily less aware of one's surroundings.

Narrative transportation

The state in which attention, emotion, and imagination converge on a story, making readers feel inside its world.

Remindings

Also known as: Autobiographical resonances

Personal memories and experiences evoked by a story that can strengthen engagement.

Retrospective involvement

Continuing to think about a story and its characters after closing the book.

Visual imagery

The mental images of places, faces, and atmospheres that form while reading.