Narrative Elements
The angle or perspective from which a story is told.
What is point-of-view
Is an essay in which a person writes about a period in their life.
What is Memoir
The final step in the story
What is the resolution
The term we use to describe the main character
What is the protagonist
often uses the narrator, the protagonist, or the character themselves.
what is Direct/Explicit
The process that involves letting a reader know who the people in the story are and what they are like.
What is character development
A short narrative that focuses on a single event
What is Reflection
Should give the reader a feeling of being ‘there’ as the events unfold. The author should use multi-sensory descriptions (such as sights, sounds, and smells) and pay attention to details in order to ‘show’ the story to the reader.
What is Descriptive detail
A Figurative Language that uses "like" or "as"
What is a simile
This more subtle method of characterization relies on you, the reader, to decide for yourself what it means.
what is Indirect/Implicit
Readers of a narrative essay should be able to identify the most significant event in the story.
What is Climax
Written by a person who was personally involved in an event and wants to share their experience.
What is Personal Experience as a Participant
The first part of a story arc where the setting is established
What is the exposition
giving human characteristics to nonhuman or abstract things.
What is Personification
usually emphasizes characterization even more than classical literature.
whats is Modern storytelling
Is perhaps the most important literary concept because it is the overarching idea that the writer of the story wants to reader to understand
What is Theme
This kind of narrative essay includes journalism and reporting. It is the least personal of these types, and may not be written in first-person point-of-view
What is Personal Experience as an Observer
where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.
where the characters have faced the main conflict and events begin falling into place.
a reference to a preexisting person, work, event, or well-known piece of pop culture.
What is Allusion
What is characterization
what is a writer’s tool, or “literary device”
Refers to the issue or problem characters in a story are confronted by
What is Conflict
A narrative essay is organized around a number of events. These events are linked through
What is cause-and-effect
It reveals the author’s opinions, hopes, and beliefs. The reader should be able to gain insights into the author’s personality in a way that is similar to a reader getting to know a character in a work of fiction.
What is Personal point-of-view
This literary technique uses the juxtaposition of like-sounding consonants to create more powerful and more memorable sentences
what is Alliteration
Why is characterization more common in modern stories
whats id its importance to plot-driven narratives