Personal Narrative
This is the point of view Personal Narratives are written in.
What is 1st person?
These describe the personality of a character.
What are character traits?
This structure tells how 2 events are related one making the other happen.
What is cause and effect?
This is how a piece of writing is organized.
What is text structure?
This is a type of figurative language that compares 2 things using like or as.
What is a simile?
This is the account when a piece of writing is told by someone who experienced it.
What is first hand account?
These details include what something looks like, sounds like, feels like, smells like, and tastes like.
What are sensory details?
This is the structure that tells a story in order of events.
What is sequence or chronology?
This means something happens every year.
What is annual?
This is the marks that go around what is being said out loud by a character.
What are quotation marks?
This is the account when a piece of writing is written by someone who collected facts about a topic but were not there to experience it.
What is second hand account?
The ball is round and red uses what kind of sensory detail?
What is what it looks like?
The words before, after, finally, first, and next are example of these kinds of words. Also named for the text structure they are used in.
What are sequence words?
This means to look at intently.
What is gazed?
This is a type of figurative language that compares 2 things without using like or as.
What is a metaphor?
These are the 3 parts of our personal narratives.
What are:
1.) the introduction
2.) Body paragraphs
3.) Conclusion
"My heart melted when I looked at the new baby," shows the narrators what.
What is their feelings/emotions?
To inform, persuade, or entertain are known as the author's this___.
What is author's purpose?
This is the machine that helped polio patients breathe.
What is the iron lung?
This is the name of the part of the sentence that tells who is speaking when dialogue is occuring.
What is the tag?
These are the 3 characteristics of a Personal Narrative
What are:
1.) It must be true (nonfiction)
2.) It must have happened to the author/narrator
3.) Written in 1st person (I, me, my, we, etc)
The ice cream was cold and delicious uses these 2 sensory details.
What are feel and taste?
A Second hand account article, such as the Introduction to Polio, has this author's purpose. (inform, persuade, or entertain)
What is to inform?
This means to jump or dive energetically.
What is plunge?
This comes at the end of a quote instead of the period when the tag comes at the end.
What is a comma?