narrative writing tells a story it can be fiction or nonfiction fiction types realistic seem like...
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Narrative Writing Tells a StoryIt Can Be Fiction or Nonfiction
Fiction Types Realistic seem like people you know or meet
Fantastic characters are unusual not like real life characters have special powers or are personified
Types of Fictional Narratives
Short StoriesNovelsFolk Tales, Myths, and legendsDrama
Short Story
Novel
Elements of plot, characterization, setting, and theme developed in detail
Has plots and subplotsUsually not completed in one sitting
Myths, Legends, Folktales
Myths Story handed down through time Explains certain aspects of life and nature
Legends – Handed down through time Explain how or why something in nature was created Can be based on story in history Exaggerated details and characters
Folktales – Handed down from generation to generation Unusual characters and special abilities Teach a lesson
Drama
Piece of literature written to be performed
in front of an audience.
Fictional Narrative Elements
SettingCharactersPlotTheme
Point of View
Dialogue
Tone
Style
Motivation
Setting
Time and place where the events occur Includes traditions, rituals, and customs of a time
periodStated outright or must guess from words that tell
when, whereSpeech, clothing, or means of transportation,
details that appeal to the five senses, touch hearing sight smell taste
Characterization
Character is a person or animal in a story
Main characters Larger roles
Minor characters smaller roles
Characterization is the different ways an author tells readers about characters
Author tells reader directly how character looks, acts, thinks and feels
Author indirectly comments,through thoughts, and actions of the other characters
Plot
Arrangement of events in a work of literature
Contains a beginning, middle, and end
Contains a situation, can be :
A problem
Conflict
A mystery
Parts of a plot Exposition
Introduces character setting and conflict
Rising action
Builds the conflict and develops the characters
Climax
Highest point of the action,
Occurs at end of story
Resolution
Problem is solved
Loose ends are tied up
Theme
the author’s insight into life
Point of View
Author pretends to be someone else when writing the story
Sees through the eye of that person
TypesFirst person Author is character in the story
events Told through his/her own eyes, Use of I/ me pronouns
Third person Not the character in the story Looks through the eyes of one
or more characters Use of he/ she/ they pronouns
Dialogue
Conversation between two or more people
Exact words a character says
Set off in quotes
Makes story real, adds humor, excitement anticipation,or sadness to a story
Builds the characters in the eyes of the readers their feelings,background, and personality
Get the characters involved personally so that the actioncan flow
Tone
Writer’s attitude toward his/her subject matter Examples:
BitterAngrySad
Style
Author’s own distinctive way of writing Made up of
Word choice Sentence length and structure Figures of speech Tone
Motivation
Reason that explains or partially explains a character’s :
Thoughts FeelingsActionsDialogue
Literary Terms
• Figurative language
• Foreshadowing
• Personification
• Irony
• Symbol
Figurative Language
Language that appeal to the reader’s senses
Sight See it through he words
Hearing Bringing sounds alive
Smell Words that make reader’s
sense of smell come alive Taste
Negative or positive taste experiences
Touch Make reader experience what
something feels like
Metaphor One object is compared to
another, unlike object Indicates that the two have
something in common, like is not used
The more familiar thing helps describe the less familiar one
Simile Comparison to two objects
using like or as
Foreshadowing
Clues or hints given by author about future plot events
Subtle, not usually picked up first time through
Personification
Human qualities are given to places,objects, Animals, or ideas
Used to create mood
Irony (of Situation)
The outcome is opposite not just different from what one would usually or reasonably expect
Example: win lottery can be negative
Symbol
Something in the story that has a meaning beyond what it actually is (object, design, color etc.)
Example: American Flag