NONFICTION (05-25-23)

KEEPING YOU PRACTICE!

Activity 2

​Directions: Can you tell what narrative element is highlighted in the following excerpts?

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He thought about Marian. She had left him nine years ago after five years of marriage. He was fifty-two now; that would make her just under forty. Marian had dreams of becoming a musician, a folksinger.

(Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County)

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I’d be lying if I told you I wasn’t afraid. I don’t want to die, and thanks to my parents—my mother lived to ninety-six—I long assumed that I was genetically capable of growing even older than I already am. Until a few months ago, I fully believed I had half a dozen good years left. Well, maybe not good years. That’s not the way it works at my age. I’ve been disintegrating for a while now—heart, joints, kidneys, bits and pieces of my body beginning to give up the ghost—but recently something else has been added to the mix. Growths in my lungs, the doctor said. Tumors. Cancer. My time is measured in months now, not years… but even so, I’m not ready to die just yet. Not today. There is something I have to do, something I have done every year since 1956. A grand tradition is coming to an end, and more than anything, I wanted one last chance to say good-bye.

(Nicholas Sparks, The Longest Ride)

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At Kalispell, Montana, he stopped for the night, late. The Cozy Inn looked inexpensive, and was.

(Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County)

Directions: Read the following selection then identify the narrative elements present in the text.

Aries – The Ram

Athamas, the legendary king of Thessaly, had two children, Phrixus and Helle. He had remarried and Ino, the children’s stepmother, began to treat them very badly. They were treated so cruelly that Hermes took pity on them and sent a magical ram to take them away and escape their stepmother’s wrath. Mounted on the ram’s back, the children flew over land and sea to the east. Unfortunately, Helle failed to get a good hold on the fleece of the ram and as they flew over the strait that separates Europe and Asia, she fell off and was drowned in the sea far below. That sea is called Hellespont to this day in honor of her memory. Phrixus landed safely at Colches, which is on the edge of the Black Sea. In gratitude for his safe deliverance, Phrixus sacrificed the ram and gave its Golden Fleece to the king of that country. In honor of the ram’s great sacrifice in saving the children, Zeus placed the ram’s constellation, Aries, in the night sky. (adapted from “Constellation Legends

​Directions: Read the following selection then identify the narrative elements present in the text.

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CHARACTERS

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SETTING

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CONFLICT

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EXPOSITION:

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CLIMAX

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FALLING ACTION

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RESOLUTION

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THEME