NARRATIVE ESSAYS

STRUCTURE

Introduction
 The thesis statement
 A clear description of why the topic is significant

Body
 An overview of the setting, background
 All of the key people involved
 The onset of the event
 The climax
 The resolution/ the ending

Conclusion
 What was the moral of the story
 How was the event significant

CHARACTERISTICS

 The events are described/presented in a chronological order

 There are transition words to describe what happened and when
 Varying sentence structure are used to engage the reader
 These essays tell stories
 The word choices are informative or descriptive
 The text relies on descriptive adjectives and words that create clear visualizations
 Past tense simple, past perfect and past continuous are used; past continuous to set the scene,
past simple to describe the main events of the story and past perfect to give the background of
the story; present and past participles can also be used;
 Sequence: background – events – result
 They are written in the first or third person