Narratives
The order in which elements of the story such as characters, setting, and events in the plot are presented.
What is narrative structure?
This element of sentences establishes the time: past, present, or future.
What is tense?
The main character of the story. This character might even be the hero and/or "good guy."
What is the protagonist?
Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution are all parts of this "pyramid" diagram.
What is plot structure?
"On their wedding day, the house had a full head of shingles to match its shining brick smile."
What is personification?
Person v Person, Person v Nature, and Person v Self are examples.
What is conflict?
These words can be future-perfect, past-progressive, past-perfect, etc.
What are verbs/verb phrases?
When an author describes the character's looks, what they are wearing, and how they walk and move, they use this type of character development.
What is direct characterization?
The setting, characters, and conflict are introduced in this part of the plot structure.
What is the exposition?
"He was generally seen trooping like a colt at his mother's heels . . ."
What is a simile?
Happily ever after, a twist, circular ending, and an open ending are examples of this part of a plot.
What are conclusions for a narrative?
Read this sentence: "When Ezekiel finishes the year, he will be an official graduate." If Ezekiel is the antecedent, this word is the pronoun.
What is he?
Characters with this description change over time and throughout the story.
What are dynamic characters?
The narrative's point of view, setting, characters, and conflict must be established in this part of the plot.
What is the exposition?
Peachtree Lane symbolically represents this at the start of the narrative (1st paragraph).
What is bad luck?
To discuss narratives, you should consider these three things.
What are the plot, characters, and theme?
These words are used to conclude narratives, to show a result or consequence in narratives, and to indicate time. When used in sentences, they may be accompanied by a comma, commas, or a semicolon, depending on their use.
What are transition words?
Scarlet is defined mainly as the narrator's younger sister in "The Luck at Peachtree Lane" but does not feature many other characteristics, so she is this kind of character.
What is a flat character?
This occurs when the narrator in "The Luck at Peachtree Lane" goes into the attic and finds things which creates the turning point of the story and the conflict becomes most tense.
What is the climax?
"Who knows?" Eddie then thought for a moment. "I've always considered myself to be pretty lucky." I couldn't help but laugh out loud. Now I'm starting to think good luck runs in our family.
What is irony?
These two conflicts would be in a narrative that includes a protagonist who must overcome their traumatic memory of getting lost in a forest to rescue their friend who has gone missing.
What is character vs. self and character vs nature?
"Since Ben has a birthday next week, we will celebrate in class today, and his team will go out for ice cream after tonight's game" is a sentence made of two independent clauses and at least one dependent clause which is this type of sentence.
What is compound complex?
These three aspects of a narrative reveal the characters' type and personality.
What are descriptions, dialogue spoken by the character, the characters' actions, and the other characters' reactions to them?
The exposition of the short story "The Luck at Peachtree Lane," describes the "unlucky" house and characters (one of which has lost her laptop), and sets up this part of the plot.
What is conflict?
This literary device allows readers to see, smell, hear, taste, and touch the details in the story but might not be part of the initial plot outline.
What is imagery?