Narrative Writing

Narrative Writing

Shaw 6th Grade English

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The story is told by one of the characters - usually the protagonist. 

• Third Person Point of View
• Narrator
• Narrative
• First Person Point of View

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Fiction or non-fiction writing that tells a story.

• Descriptive Writing
• Expository Writing
• Narrator
• Narrative Writing

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The end of the story; brings the story to a satisfactory close.

• Falling Action
• Resolution
• Climax
• Exposition 

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The story is told by a narrator who is not a character in the story.

• First Person Point of View
• Narrator
• Third Person Point of View
• Narrative

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The author describes how the problem is solved.

• Falling Action
• Setting 
• Rising ACtion
• Conflict

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What is the purpose of a narrative?

• To give the reader information
• To persuade readers
• To tell a story
• To describe characters

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Climax is... 

• Events that make up a story
• The turning point for the protagonist
• setting and characters
• the solution to the problem

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A struggle between two or more opposing forces.

• climax
• conflict
• character
• chapter

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What type of conflict is best shown here...

• man vs. man

• man vs. self

• man vs. nature

• man vs. society

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In this element of plot, the author introduces the characters and setting...

• Resolution

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising Action

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Man versus self is an __________ conflict

• internal

• external

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The part of the story that ties up all the loose ends and takes care of the conflict

• the climax
• the theme
• the resolution
• the introduction

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True or False.  A narrative must have characters.

• True
• False

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Dialogue is 

• Action at the end of the story
• The conversation between characters
• Authors point of view
• Chronological order

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_________________ means the time and place in which the events happen in a story.

• Chronological order
• Setting
• Dialogue
• Transition words

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What is a narrative?

• A story
• Poetry
• A biography
• A research project

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A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing
• theme
• rising action

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Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously
• A hint at something that will happen later
• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things
• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

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A well developed, complex character is

• round

• flat

• static

• dynamic

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A character that we know little about

• Round

• Flat

• Static

• Dynamic

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Dynamic Characters...

• do not change during the story
• have little or no detail
• have lots of detail
• change during the story

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Static Characters...

• do not change during the story
• have little or no detail
• have lots of detail
• change during the story

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The character who prevents the protagonist from reaching his/her goal.

• protagonist

• antagonist

• main character

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The main character in story who wants to reach a goal.

• protagonist

• antagonist

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refers to the main idea or moral of the story.

• fable

• mood

• tone

• theme