Beginning, Middle, and End
Organization and Elaboration
Craft
Habits of Good Writers
100

The "lead" of a narrative is also known as this.

What is the beginning.

100

The author should use these to separate different parts or time of the story.

What are paragraphs?

100

The writer should show why characters did what they did by including things like this.

What are the character's thinking and the character's responses to what happened.

100

Dialogue, onomatopeia, a thought or a question are good ways to write this part of a narrative.

What is the lead or beginning.

200

The lead should explain where and when the story takes place, also known as this.

What is the setting?

200

The author should use these to show when a new character is speaking.

What are paragraphs?

200

The best narratives are achieved through storytelling or summarizing?

What is storytelling?

200

One may end a narrative by think ahead to the present, this is known as this.

What is flash forward?

300

In order to help the reader be able to predict what will later become a problem for the main character, the writer should include this.

What is a clue?

300

True of False?

Some parts of the story should be longer and more developed than others.

What is TRUE?

300

This part of the story should be slowed down, expanded, and include many details.

What is the heart of the story?

300

Building suspense or tension from the beginning of a narrative up to the climax is known as this?

What is a story arc?

400

The author should use transitional phrases to show passage of time in complicated ways, such as thinking about a past time that already happened.  Also known as this.

What is a flashback?

400

The writer should develop these story elements throughout her/his story, especially the heart of the story.

What are characters, setting, and plot?  Needs two of the three for a correct answer.

400

The author should include precise details and used figurative language so that readers could picture the setting, characters, and events.  Name two types of figurative language.

What are simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, idioms, hyperboles, and alliteration?

400

Good writers write different versions of the same story also known as these.

What are drafts?

500

The writer should make sure that this part connects to the main part of the story. The character said, did, or realized something at this part that came from what happened in the story.  

What is the end?

500

An author should use a blend of these to effectively elaborate on seed ideas.  There are four, you need to name three.

What are description, action, dialogue, and thinking?

500

The writer should vary these to create the pace and tone of my narrative.

What are sentences?

500

The key to an excellent personal narrative is not choosing a whole watermelon story, but one of these ideas.

What is a seed idea?

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