Aries and Bea are couple who

celebrates Christmas together. They

loved each other so much and in
upcoming January they planned to
get married because they don’t want
to be separated anymore.

The Flores family are having a

short vacation. They went on a
trip to escape the stress and
loneliness they feel when they
are in work or in the schools.
MODES OF PARAGRAPH
DEVELOPMENT
(NARRATIVE WRITING)
2022
Narrative Writing
- It is a sequence of events, not necessarily
arranged in chronological order, told by a
narrator, happening in a particular place at a
particular time.
To achieve this effectiveness, writers should
make sure that their narratives have a vivid
description of details, a consistent point of view
and verb tense, a well-defined point or
significance.
Vivid Description of Details
Narration banks so much on how the details of a story are
told. Description is appealing to the five senses of the
human body.

Ex.
“A boy and a girl sat on the floor holding two bamboo poles
by their ends flat on floor, dapping them together, then
apart, and pounding them on the boards, while dancers
swayed and balanced their lithe forms, dipping their bare
brown legs in and out of the clapping bamboos, the pace
gradually increasing into a fury of wood on wood in a
counterpoint of panic among the dancers and in a
harmonious flurry of toes and ankles escaping certain pain
—crushed bones, and bruised flesh, and humiliation”
Consistent Point of View (POV)
The three most commonly used points of view are the first,
second, and third points of view. Generally speaking, one
would know that the third person point of view is being used in a
story when the pronouns he, she, it, him, her, they, him, her, is,
their, and them consistently appear in the narration.

Ex. In the sample text of The Day the Dancers Came, the third
person point of view is used:

"'Naturally. Who says you won't?' Fil argued, thinking how

wonderful would be if he could join accompany of dancers from
the Philippines, show them around walk with them in the snow,
watch their eyes as they stared about them answer their
questions, tell them everything they wanted to know about the
changing seasons in this strange land. They would pick up fistfuls
of snow, crunch it in their fingers or shove it into their mouths…”
Consistent Verb Tense
- is needed to make clear to the reader
whether the story in the narrative had
already happened, has been happening for
some time now, happens on a regular
basis, is currently happening and will do so
indefinitely, or will happen sometime in the
future.
Well-Defined Point or Significance
A Well-defined point or significance in any
narrative is something similar to the literary
element we call theme. The theme is the
unifying thought or idea born out of all the
other elements of the story.
Narrative Devices
The use of narrative devices is a technique writer
utilize to add flavor and enrich the meaning of their
stories. With these devices, an author can shorten,
lengthen, and/or focus on a particular event in the
story.

• Anecdote
Anecdotes are brief narratives that are written from the
writer's memory.

• Flashback
A flashback is an event that happened in the past.
Time Stretch
A time stretch is a single event in the story that the author
focuses writing about.
Time Summary
As opposed to a time stretch in which a single event is
prolonged, a time summary is characterized by jamming
together multiple events and/or shortening a relatively long
period of time.
Flashforward
As opposed to a flashback, a flashforward is an event that
has yet to happen in the story.
Dialogue
- a word or a series of words enclosed in a pair of quotation
marks, which signal the-characters' spoken language.
Is narrative can be useful in
our daily life situation?
ACTIVITY TIME!!!
 In a ½ C.W write a short
narrative essay about an
experience where you learned
something about yourself.
ASSIGNMENT!!!
In your Formal Theme write your
Holy Week Celebration.
Minimum of 100-150 words.