Dialogue in a Narrative

Narrative

Asynchronous Lesson

Remember that Narratives:

• Tell a story

• Have Drama, Dialogue and Description

• Use Both Narration and Diagloue

Multiple Select

What were you supposed to remember about Narrative? (Check all that apply)

• They only give facts

• They use Drama, Dialogue and Description

• They tell a story

• They try to convince you with reasons and evidence

• They use both narration and dialogue

Dialogue: Quotation Marks

• Dialogue is when one or more character's are talking out loud.

• In a comic book we would use dialogue boxes (see picture)

• Quotation marks show us exactly what a character is saying.

• Mr. Lemoi says, "These two little lines are called quotation marks. Use them so you know when characters are speaking."

Multiple Choice

Which one of these has quotation marks?

• (Right here.)

• "This one"

• #Over here#

• <Not me>

Multiple Choice

What do quotation marks do?

• They show us exactly what a character is saying.

• They describe a character

• They tell us about the setting

• They are useless and do nothing

New Speaker = New Line

• Whenever a new person begins to speak, press ENTER and go to the next line.

• Also, press TAB to indent

• Do not put everything into one big blocky paragraph

Multiple Choice

New Speaker = New .... what?

• Car

• Sub Woofer

• Line

• ENTER

Dialogue Tags

• Show us WHO is speaking and HOW they are speaker

• Mr. Lemoi whispered, "Why am I whispering?"

• "Because I don't want to yell all the time," Mr. Lemoi explained.

• "BUT SOMETIMES" Mr. Lemoi shouted, "I DO LIKE TO SHOUT!"

• You know who is speaker (Mr. Lemoi) and how he is speaking (whispering, explaining, shouting).

Multiple Select

What two things do Dialogue tags do for us? (Check all that apply)

• Tell us WHO is speaking

• Tells us the main conflict

• Tell us HOW they are speaking

• Tells us the setting of the story

To Review: When writing dialogue...

• New speaker = New Line.

• Quotation marks go around the words people are saying.

• Dialogue tags show us who is speaking and how they are speaking.

• Thank you! See you next class.