Format
The first sentence of your narrative
What is the hook?
People talking in the story
What is dialogue?
The number of events in your story
What is one?
The list of words we use to revise
What is the "Really Bad Words" list
Ms. Johnson's favorite tea at Rock Solid
What is Color Me Red?
The font AND size used in your personal narratives
What is Times New Roman 12?
Words or phrases that take the reader from one topic to the next
What are transitions?
The sequence of events
What is plot?
Something that you absolutely should use to proofread
What is the "No Excuses" List or Grammarly or both?
Ms. Johnson's favorite thing to grade
What is personal stories? (Journals, narratives, etc.)
True or false: You capitalize the first word of dialogue in quotation marks.
What is true?
The place or surroundings where your story takes place
What is the setting?
The order a personal narrative is written in
What is chronological order?
Sound words (Used commonly in the hook)
What is an onomatopoeia?
Ms. Johnson is this old
What is 22?
You do this when the speaker changes in dialogue.
What is start a new paragraph?
What type of hook is this: What is the greatest movie ever made?
What is a rhetorical question?
Name five words that should not be capitalized in the middle of the title
What are a, an, the, and, but, or, nor, so, for, yet, at, by, to, from?
The most dramatic part of the personal narrative
What is the turning point/conflict?
Ms. Johnson's favorite book
What is The Help? (if I had to pick just one)
You use this POV to write a personal narrative (you're talking about yourself)
What is First Person Point of View?
The technique used to place the reader in the middle of the story, like in this sentence: "My knees were shaking, heart racing, palms sweating."
What is show, not tell OR imagery?
The part of your narrative that reveals the impact or lesson learned from your experience.
What is the conclusion?
The tactic we use to revise
What is RAR?
The first college Ms. Johnson attended
NDSU