Plotting
Stories can be real or imagined. A personal narrative uses THIS type of story.
What is a real story?
These are the two primary terms used to identify types of conflict in literature.
What is internal and external conflict.
This term is used to identify the time and place a story occurs.
What is the setting or what is setting?
This is the most common narrative perspective, in which the narrator is not identified and is usually not an active participant in the story and can go anywhere and hear the thoughts of everyone.
What is a third person omniscient narrator?
This narrative strategy interests the reader in the first paragraph of the story.
What is a narrative hook, or hook?
In a personal narrative, this starts the action of the story.
What is the incident?
This term is used to identify conflict between two individuals in a story.
What is person vs person conflict or man vs man.
This literary term is used to identify a conversation between two or more characters in a story.
What is dialogue?
This type of unbiased narrator is not directly in the story and tells it as an outside observer looking in and can only report what is seen and heard.
What is a third-person objective narrator.
This formatting strategy denotes when a different character is speaking in a dialogue.
What is paragraphing, or what is indentation?
What is the response?
What type of conflict exists in a story where characters are frequently dealing with fires, lightening, and sinkholes?
What is person vs nature or man vs nature conflict.
This term identifies an author's use of vivid detail to create an authentic character in a story.
What is characterization?
This type of narrator tells the story of protagonists as if they are right next to them, describing each of their thoughts and actions, often using the pronoun "you."
What is a second-person narrative perspective?
When writing a narrative essay, this term is used for language that attributes dialogue to a character.
What is an attributive clause or a dialogue tag?
The end of a personal narrative must contain THIS.
What is a reflection?
This type of conflict exists in a story where a person is frequently dealing with conflicting internal thoughts.
What is person vs self or man vs self conflict.
This literary term is used to identify an author's use of specific adjectives to stimulate the reader's senses.
What is imagery, or what are sensory details?
This narrative perspective is used when the main character tells their story from their perspective.
What is a first-person narrative perspective.
This element in the last paragraph of a personal narrative is unique to this specific writing mode.
What is a reflection?
For a personal narrative to be effective, THESE types of details need to be used by the author.
What are sensory details?
This type of conflict occurs in a story where a character is in conflict with some type of new invention.
What is person vs machine or man vs machine (or technology) conflict.
This term is used for an authorial strategy where an author starts a story in the middle in order to interest a reader before going back to the beginning.
What is IN MEDIAS RES?
This term describes a first-person narrative perspective that is highly subjective.
What is an unreliable narrator?
This organization's standard is most commonly used to instruct students on how to organize the formatting of an essay in middle school ELA classes.
What is the Modern Language Association?