Narrative, story and plot

Narrative
is a series of events. 'I am cold' is not a narrative, but 'I am cold because the evil Tesks of Orthorn have imprisoned me in an ice cavern' is a narrative. Film theorists Bordwell and Thompson describe a narrative as 'a chain of events in a cause-effect relationship occuring in time and space' (1990). This is useful as it places emphasis on 3 key components of narrative:

Causality or why things happen, ('... because the Tesks imprisoned me.')

Time or when things happen ('... I was imprisoned in an ice cavern then I got cold.')

Space or where things happen ('... the ice caverns of Orthorn.')