Chekhov's gun
storyline
plot device
fridge logic
MacGuffin
frame tale
backfill
plot element
foreshadowing
plotwise
short subject
the rest is history
anagnorisis
reset button
spoiler alert
scenario
fridge horror
exposition
misplot
the story goes
big-lipped alligator moment
scène à faire
analepsis
story beat
long long ago
unstory
subplot
plot hole
legend
front matter
lesson
prelims
metastory
moral
plotlet
plot
ellipsis
story
emplotment
pornography
polymythy
embroider
plot twist
retcon
substory
in medias res
anticlimactic
plotline
confederate
flashback
iconotropy
ass-pull
plotwork
final act
Asianization
bizarro
cabal
slow burn
spiritual sequel
dénouement
underplot
dramatic irony
guess what
premiere
slavefic
head-hop
semireality
continuity nod
conspiration
nuke the fridge
adumbration
punch hole
hamartia
midscene
postscriptum
kazaam
rhetography
footprint
afterpiece
catastrophe
lead-in
lede
lead
pay-off
pourquoi story
historicalization
spoilerette
McGuffin
storylining
spoilerific
spin-off
recency
recentness
flash fiction
sudden fiction

English words for 'An element that is introduced early in the story whose significance to the plot does not become clear until later.'

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