Narrative Elements
Writing Process
Story Arc
Figurative Language
Key Terms
100
The time and place where the events of a story take place.
What is the setting
100
A narrative story grows from this idea.
Small moment or seed idea
100
The moment of highest drama and tension in a narrative, in which the main conflict is confronted fully.
What is the climax
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
A spoken conversation between two or more people; it helps bring the story to life.
What is (external) dialogue
200
This is a technique in the writing process in which an entire draft is written in one sitting.
What is flash drafting
200
This is what the story is REALLY about.
What is the heart of the story
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
The point in the story arc where the main conflict is introduced and the tension begins to build.
What is the rising action
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 move a writer makes when beginning a new paragraph.
What is indenting
400
The internal thoughts or feelings of a character.
What is internal dialogue
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
The point in the story arc where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.
What is the falling 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
Details that include sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell.
What are sensory details
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
The final step in the story arc in which all loose ends of the narrative are tied up and the story concludes.
What is the resolution
500
The following sentence contains these two types of figurative language: "The book came flapping like a wounded duck and fell at Jeffrey's feet." -Maniac McGee
What are personification and simile
500
The emotional voice that an author brings to a narrative.
What is the tone
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