:x From the point of view of time, there are four types of narrating

[table=50%][tr=tcat][td]INTERPOLATED[/td][td]SIMULTANEOUS[/td][td]PRIOR [/td][td]SUBSEQUENT[/td][/tr][tr=alt1][td]Between the moments of the action (this is the most complex)[/td][td]Narrative in the present contemporaneous with the action (this is the simplest form of narrating since the simultaneousness of the story and the narrating eliminates any sort of interference or temporal game).[/td][td]Predictive narrative, generally in the future tense (dreams, prophecies) [this type of narrating is done with less frequency than any other][/td][td]The classical (most frequent) position of the past-tense narrative[/td][/tr][/table]


:x Their structural position with respect to the story/events

[table=50%][tr=tcat][td]Heterodiegetic[/td][td]Homodiegetic[/td][/tr][tr=alt1][td]a story in which the narrator is absent from the story he narrates[/td][td]a story in which the narrator is present in the story he narrates[/td][/tr][/table]


:x different narrative/enunciative levels of the work

[table=50%][tr=tcat][td]Intradiegetic[/td][td]Extradiegetic[/td][/tr][tr=alt1][td]the narrator is immersed within the same level as that of the story world, and has limited or incomplete knowledge of the story he narrates.[/td][td]The narrator is superior, in the sense of being at least one level higher than the story world, and hence has a good or virtually complete knowledge of the story he narrates.[/td][/tr][/table]