episode (n.)

• action
• adventure
• affair
• angle
• architectonics
• architecture
• argument
• aside
• atmosphere
• background
• bypath
• byway
• catastrophe
• chapter
• characterization
• circumstance
• color
• complication
• continuity
• contrivance
• denouement
• departure
• design
• development
• deviation
• device
• digression
• disconnectedness
• disconnection
• discontinuance
• discontinuation
• discontinuity
• discreteness
• disjunction
• event
• excursion
• excursus
• experience
• fable
• fact
• fitfulness
• gimmick
• go
• hap
• happening
• happenstance
• incident
• incoherence
• incompleteness
• infix
• injection
• insert
• insertion
• insinuation
• intercalation
• interjection
• intermittence
• interpolation
• introduction
• irregularity
• line
• matter
• mood
• motif
• movement
• nonuniformity
• occasion
• occurrence
• parenthesis
• part
• particular
• peripeteia
• phenomenon
• plan
• plot
• reality
• recognition
• remark
• scene
• scheme
• slant
• story
• structure
• subject
• switch
• theme
• thing
• tone
• topic
• twist