Narrative hook

Narrative hook

A narrative hook (or just hook) is a <a href="/en/Literary_technique" title="Literary technique" class="mw-redirect wl">literary technique</a> in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that they will keep on reading. The "opening" may consist of several paragraphs for a short story, or several pages for a novel, but ideally it is the <a href="/en/Opening_sentence" title="Opening sentence" class="wl">opening sentence</a> in the book.<a href="#cite_note-1" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;">[1]</a><a href="#cite_note-Lyon-2" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;">[2]</a>

A narrative hook is a literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that they will keep on reading. The "opening" may consist of several paragraphs for a short story, or several pages for a novel, but ideally it is the opening sentence in the book. 