Narrative Elements
Writing Process
POW + CSPACE
Figurative Language
Key Terms
100
The time and place where the events of a story take place.
What is the setting
100
The very first step in the writing process in which brainstorming, graphic organization, research, and planning take place.
What is prewriting
100

This first step in the POW strategy involves deciding what to do in your writing.

What is Planning?

100
A type of speech or writing that breaks away from the literal meaning in order to create a special effect or meaning.
What is figurative language
100
The term we use to describe the main character or principle actor in a narrative, the person with whom the reader most closely relates.
What is the protagonist
200
The process that involves letting a reader know who the people in the story are and what they are like.
What is character development
200
This is the second step in the writing process in which the first or rough draft is created.
What is writing or drafting
200

The final step in the POW strategy focuses on creating the actual text according to your plan and organization.

What is Write and say more

200
A comparison that is made between two unrelated things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile
200
A character in a narrative who is opposed to the protagonist or protagonists; a villain.
What is the antagonist
300
The central struggle or tension within a narrative that shapes the plot and drives the action forward.
What is conflict
300
This is the third step in the writing process in which the writer rereads what he or she has written in the rough draft, gets feedback from others, and makes changes to ideas, organization, voice, word choice, and sentence fluency.
What is revising
300

This first step in the CSPACE strategy involves thinking about the writing task and what you need to do.

What is the character

300
A comparison that is made between two unrelated things that does not use the words "like" or "as."
What is a metaphor
300
The emotional voice that an author brings to a narrative.
What is the tone
400
The angle or perspective from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view
400
This is the fourth step in the writing process in which the writer checks and corrects all errors in conventions, including spelling, capitalization, punctuation, and grammar.
What is proofreading or editing
400

This step of CSPACE involves outlining the sequence of events or actions that drive the narrative or argument forward.

What is the Action

400
A figure of speech in which human characteristics are given to an animal or an object. (Example: "The wind whispered through the window.")
What is personification
400
The emotions that a narrative makes a reader feel.
What is the mood
500
A main idea or message that is presented by the author in various ways throughout a narrative.
What is theme
500
This is the fifth and final step in the writing process in which the written work is prepared in its final form and presented to the teacher and/or class for evaluation.
What is publishing
500

This element of CSPACE involves capturing and conveying the feelings and emotional responses of the characters or the writer.

What is Emotion

500
An exaggeration that is so dramatic that no one would believe the statement is literally true.
What is hyperbole
500
A person, object, action, place, or event in a narrative that in addition to its literal meanings suggests a more complex meaning.
What is a symbol
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