Everything that is an element of the whole package immediately encompassing the text and not part of the text itself.
In other words, all that stuff that isn't a part of the show/movie/story itself, but still comes with it. The stuff on the box, the stuff that comes before the show/movie, etc.
See also Text Tropes.
Tropes:
Categories
- Alt Text
- All There in the Manual
- Animated Outtakes
- Anonymous Author
- Blooper
- Bonus Material
- Commercial Pop-Up
- Concept Art Gallery
- Dear Negative Reader
- Death by Newbery Medal
- Dedication
- Dictionary Opening
- Do Not Spoil This Ending
- Dramatis Personae
- DVD Bonus Content
- DVD Commentary
- Epigraph
- Face on the Cover
- Fanfic Header
- Fantasy World Map
- Feelies
- Foiler Footage
- Footnote Fever
- Fourth-Wall Mail Slot
- Freeze-Frame Bonus
- Fun with Subtitles
- Hidden Track
- Hilarious Outtakes
- In-Scene Title Text
- Internal Homage
- Intermission
- Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition
- Medley Overture
- Milestone Celebration
- Minimalistic Cover Art
- Misplaced-Names Poster
- Never Trust a Trailer
- No Animals Were Harmed
- "No Talking or Phones" Warning
- On the Next
- Onscreen Chapter Titles
- Packaged as Other Medium
- Paradiegetic Gameplay
- Pop-Up Trivia
- Precap
- Previously On
- The Rant
- Red-and-White Comedy Poster
- Repeating Ad
- Selling the Show
- Spoiled by the Format
- Station Ident
- Switch to Color
- Tagline
- This Is a Work of Fiction
- Title Sequence Replacement
- Trailers Always Spoil
- Trailer Spoof
- Trend Covers
- Uncredited Role
- Unique Pilot Title Sequence
- Universe Chronology
- Unusual Chapter Numbers
- Vanity Plate
- Webcomic Time
- What Could Have Been
