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Parts of a Personal Narrative
Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Figurative Language
Leads
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- Incident - Response - Reflection
What are the three parts to a personal narrative?
100
Theme
What is that main subject or issue that is discussed often or repeatedly.
100
Coherence
What is clear and orderly presentation of ideas?
100
- Hyperbole - Personification - Simile - Metaphor
What are four types of figurative language?
100
- Action - Reaction - Dialogue
What are the three types of leads?
200
Incident
What is the part that explains what happens?
200
Effect
What is the way one thing acts upon another causing change.
200
Metaphor
What is an object or idea or activity used as a symbol of something else?
200
Metaphor
What is a comparison between two unlike objects - not using like or as?
200
Reaction Lead
What type of lead chooses to open with a character thinking about or reflecting on the event?
300
Reflection
What is the lesson you learned from this experience?
300
Effective
What is successful in producing a desired result?
300
Consequences
What is something that naturally follows from an action or condition.
300
Simile
What is a comparison using like or as?
300
Action
What lead chooses to open a narrative with the main character doing something; this puts the reader right in the middle of the action.
400
Response
What is the part that tells about your feelings and thoughts about people involved at the time?
400
External Coherence
What is coherence between the paragraphs and relates to the entire essay?
400
Objective
What is writing based on facts rather than feelings.
400
Hyperbole
What is extreme exaggeration?
400
Dialogue
What lead chooses to show the read a key event, using dialogue between characters.
500
Choice you made
What is one thing that must be included in your personal narrative?
500
Subjective
What is writing based on feelings or opinions rather than facts.
500
Internal Coherence
What is coherence within a paragraph
500
Personification
What is giving human characteristics to inanimate objects.
500
What type of lead is this: My clothes have failed me. I remembered the green coat that I wore I fifth and sixth grade when you either danced like a champ or pressed yourself against a greasy wall, bitter as a penny toward the happy couples.
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