Narrative Writing
What is nonfiction?
Based on a real-life event and real people.
What is the Plot?
The sequence of events
What is the topic sentence?
What the whole paragraph will be about - is the main idea.
What is the main idea?
Most important idea a writer makes in a paragraph or passage.
What is a noun?
Person, place, thing, or idea.
What is the protagonist?
The characters facing the problem.
What is the Exposition?
The background information, who and what the reader needs to know about the story.
What is a closing sentence?
It is the last sentence that restates the main idea in a different way.
Where can the main idea be found?
In the beginning, middle, or end of a paragraph or passage.
What is a verb?
Action, state, or occurrence.
What are the 3 types of narratives?
Personal, Biographical, and Fictional Narratives.
What is Point-Of-View?
The perspective from which a narrative is told.
What is a supporting detail?
Sentences that support the topic sentence, include text evidence, facts, reasons, and examples.
How do you determine the main idea?
Combine supporting details.
What is an adjective?
Words that modify or describe a noun.
Every narrative needs the following components to be ________?
Complete
What types of Point-Of-View are there AND explain them?
1st person - personal narrative - you tell the story.
OR
Fiction - a character tells the story
3rd person - an unseen narrator tells the story and is not a character.
To help writing flow smoothly, good writers use ___________ words and phrases between details.
Transition
Remember, the main idea tells _______________________________ and the ______________________ for the main idea.
The authors point about the topic / details offer support.
What is an adverb?
Words that modify or describe a verb, adjective, or other adverb.
What are the titles of the stories for Personal, Biographical, and Ficitional Narrative examples used?
Personal: My Favorite Memory
Biographical: Nobel Prize Winner Cheated Death - Twice!
OR
Mama and the Outhouse
Fictional: The Waiter and the Genie
What is the Inciting Incident?
An event that introduces the conflict. What happens to set the plot in motion?
Give 5 examples of transition words and phrases.
First, also, without a doubt, indeed, compared to, etc.
1. Read the entire selection
2. re-read the first and last sentence of each paragraph
3. While reading ask yourself what point is the author trying to make
4. Review the title
Which of the two parts of speech have exceptions?
Adjective and adverb.