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Narratives are fundamental to human life as narratives are everywhere performing countless functions in human life such as communicating ideas, thoughts, feeling, emotions and views effectively. The present research paper studies the concept of narrative and the theory of narratology propounded by the prominent theorists of Narratology, in brief, in order to get an extensive understanding of the concept of narrative. The paper also undertakes to study certain formal elements of narrative such as plot, character, point of view, time, setting, theme, language and various kinds of symbolism to enhance the analysis and interpretation of narrative techniques used in a narrative fiction. This paper further critically analyses some popular narrative techniques such as Flashback and Flash-forward, In Media's res, Dream Sequence, Ellipsis (narrative mode), In Cluing, Red herring (narrative) and Stream of Consciousness etc. that have been dominantly employed in English literature.