NARRATIVE

Personal and story writing

NARRATIVE
WRITING
A Narrative is a STORY.
Narrative ~ A fictional story
you can make up all of the
events.
Personal Narrative~ A TRUE
story about an event that
happened in your life.
ORDER
Beginning:
Introduce characters, place
Middle:
Events happen (Rising Action)
Use details
Keep the events progressing forward (No
two pages on how the dude made a sandwich).

End:
Result (Falling Action)
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WRITING
 Tell a fictional story.
 Write the events in order.
 Remember your plot diagrams.
 You can do flashbacks.
 Paragraphs can be any size. INDENT!
 Still proper grammar, spelling and
capitalization.
DIALOGUE
 Indentfor each new speaker.
 Use quotation marks.
 Use commas inside the quotation marks,
then who said the words.
 “Wow,” Jim said as he walked down the
eerie hallway to his destination. “I can’t
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
 NoCapital 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
Cause and effect: Do something,
something happens

Chronological order: Events go

in order of TIME
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Flashback: Go back in time to explain an
event or feeling
Foreshadowing: Hints to future events
Adjectives: Describe nouns
Sensory language: See, hear, feel, taste,
smell
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Idiom: Piece of cake

Personification: The wind was
screaming…
Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Simile: She was like a tiger on the court.
Metaphor: She was a tiger…
Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could eat a
horse. I am so tired I could die.
Alliteration: 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”

Third Person Limited: Only see the

perspective of one character.
POINT OF VIEW
Third Person Omniscient:
The narrator knows the thoughts of all
characters. You see the story from many
perspectives.