Narrative
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story
What is narrative?
What part of plot structure introduces what the story is about, including the characters and setting?
What is the exposition?
The definition of “tone” is the way the author expresses his _________ through his writing.
What is attitude?
Textual support is selecting quotes that _________ your ideas.
What is support?
What is a historical account or biography written from personal knowledge or special sources?
What is a memoir?
Plot includes the ____________ of events that propels the story.
What is sequence?
What is the major part of the plot structure? *Hint* It can include some dramatic action, such as when the hero and the villain finally face off, or it can be an epiphany.
What is climax?
Which form of language is more casual and personal?
What is Informal Language?
All textual evidence should: Support a ________ point.
What is specific?
What is a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is genre?
List the 5 Parts of Plot Structure in order?
What is Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution?
What part of a story's plot line includes when the problem of the story is solved or worked out.
What is Resolution?
What form of language does not use colloquialisms, contractions or first-person pronouns such as ‘I’ or ‘We’.
What is Informal Language?
Which of the following in the list is not a textual verb: Demonstrates, Displays, Drowns, Identifies, Infers, Describes, Explains, Manifests, Justifies
What is drowns?
_____________ includes not only description of the characters but also key scenes that show their values, their motivations and other important information about them.
What is characterization?
Although all narratives do not include this part, it can be used to enhance characterization through dialect and their choice of words.
What is dialogue?
You can easily identify these two parts of the plot structure once after you identify the climax.
What is Rising Action and Falling Action?
Label the following words to either have a neutral, negative, or positive connotation:
old, vintage, decrepit
What is old (neutral), vintage (positive), and decrepit (negative).
Find the textual evidence verb in the following example:
The narrator describes the monkeys as being “natural mimics” and having “intelligence” which infers that monkeys are easy to train.
What is infers?
Second-person refers to the reader as "_______"
What is "you"
Explain the difference between third-person omniscient and third-person limited?
Third-person limited has limited insight into the characters' thoughts.
Third-person omniscient can share any thoughts of any characters in the story.
What is the turning point of the story?
What is Climax?
What is the arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language?
*Hint* The answer is in the following sentence:
Tone is expressed by your use of syntax, your point of view, your diction, and the level of formality in your writing.
Syntax
Locate the textual support in the following example:
There is a contrast in tone when comparing the paragraphs; the words “wonderful, rich, dancing” display an elegant tone while “pulled off”, “tore”, and “fighting” exemplify an undignified tone.
What is: “wonderful, rich, dancing” “pulled off”, “tore”, and “fighting”
Atmosphere takes into account not only the setting of the narrative, such as the _____ and_____, but also the feeling.
What is time and place?