Editing Plot twist (section)

===Non-linear narrative===
{{Also|Time travel in fiction}}

A [[non-linear narrative]] works by revealing plot and character in non-chronological order.<ref name="Steiff2011">{{cite book|author=Josef Steiff|title=Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy: The Footprints of a Gigantic Mind|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vq24xAyfoq0C&pg=PA96|access-date=23 July 2013|year=2011|publisher=Open Court|isbn=978-0-8126-9731-5|page=96}}</ref> This technique requires the reader to attempt to piece together the timeline in order to fully understand the story. A twist ending can occur as the result of information that is held until the climax and which places characters or events in a different perspective. Some of the earliest known uses of non-linear story telling occur in ''[[The Odyssey]]'', a work that is largely told in flashback via the narrator [[Odysseus]]. ''[[The Aeneid]]'', another [[epic poem]], uses a similar approach; it begins with the main protagonist, [[Aeneas]], telling stories about the end of the [[Trojan War]] and the first half of his journey to [[Dido]], queen of [[Carthage]]. The nonlinear approach has been used in works such as the films ''[[Mulholland Drive (film)|Mulholland Drive]]'', ''[[Sin City (film)|Sin City]]'', ''[[Saw IV]]'', ''[[Premonition (2007 film)|Premonition]]'', ''[[Arrival (film)|Arrival]]'', ''[[Pulp Fiction (film)|Pulp Fiction]]'', ''[[Memento (film)|Memento]]'', ''[[Babel (film)|Babel]]'', the television shows [[Lost (2004 TV series)|''Lost'']], ''[[How to Get Away with Murder]]'', ''[[How I Met Your Mother (TV series)|How I Met Your Mother]]'' (especially in many episodes in the later seasons), ''[[Heroes (U.S. TV series)|Heroes]]'', ''[[Westworld (TV series)|Westworld]]'', the book ''[[Catch-22]]'', and ''[[WandaVision]]''.<ref>Adrienne Redd, [http://prosetoad.blogspot.com/2006/01/nonlinear-films-and-anticausality-of.html Nonlinear films and the anticausality of Mulholland Dr.], '' Prose Toad Literary Blog''</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.plotsinc.com/sitenew/column_art_02.html |title=Plots Inc. Productions |publisher=Plotsinc.com |access-date=2012-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012225908/http://www.plotsinc.com/sitenew/column_art_02.html |archive-date=2017-10-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref>