NARRATIVE

Personal and story writing

DIALOGUE

for each new speaker.
Use quotation marks.
Use inside the quotation
marks, then who said the words.




Wow, Jim said as he walked down
the eerie hallway to his destination. I
cant believe it!
Hey, wait up! Joe yelled, as he saw
his friends shadow disappear around the
corner. Blah, blah, blah, blah Blah, blah
Blah, blah Blah, Blah,blah Blah, blah
Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah.
Relax bro, Jim retorted.

BACK AND FORTH
CONVERSATION

Look at that, Jim said.
I know, whispered Joe.
How do you know?
I just do.
Yeah, right.
(You can stop using their names each
time when they talk back and forth
right away).
CONTINUED TALKING
No Capital letter if you continue
after you write: I said or Joe said

Sir, I said to the officer, the kid
just broke his arm.
NARRATIVE VOCABULARY
: Go back in time to explain
an event or feeling
: Hints to future events
: Describe nouns
____________: See, hear, feel, taste,
smell
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Idiom: Piece of cake
Personification: The wind was
screaming
Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
______:She was like a tiger on the
court.
_______She was a tiger
:I am so hungry I could eat
a horse. I am so tired I could die.
: Billy Bob bought a bright
blue BMW.


POINT OF VIEW
First Person: Character is the narrator.
Use I and we

Second Person: When the narrator
puts the reader in place of the main
character. Uses you

: Only see the
perspective of one character.


POINT OF VIEW
:
The narrator knows the thoughts of all
characters. You see the story from
many perspectives.

EIGHTH GRADE: REFLECTION