Elements of Writing Narrative

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Let's talk about Narratives!!

​Today, we will Identify the elements of a narrative, imagery, prologue, and dialogue.

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Learning Target

Components of a Narrative

In your notebook, you will write down these components and their meanings.

1. Theme- central message or insight into life revealed by the writer

2. Plot- sequence of events in a literary work. (Plot diagram)

   Exposition- introduces the settings

   Inciting incident- the central conflict

   Climax- conflict increases and reaches the highest point

   Falling action- events that happen after the climax

   Denouncement- also known as the resolution- at the end of the story and the solution to the conflict is revealed and solved

3. Character- a person or animal that takes part in the action of the story

Characters are either protagonists or antagonist

Components of a Narrative continued

In your notebook, you will write down these components and their meanings.
4. Conflict- struggle between the character or characters
5. Setting- a time and a place
6. Point of View- an author's perspective from which events are told or described
7. Style- a unique way of how the author writes. Authors use diction, tone, figurative language, dialect, dialogue, mood, and rhythm

When it comes to writing a story, authors have to think about how and who they are trying to attract.

Multiple Choice

How many types of conflict are there in literature?

• 3

• 1

• 4

• 1

Fill in the Blank

The plot structure has _______parts in order to make the story successful.

​Imagery-words that use description to create pictures for the reader.
The pictures are created by details of sight, sound, taste, touch, smell, and movement.

Open Ended

Describe this image.

What is a prologue?

Prologue- an introductory section of a literary work that provides background information about the story or characters.

Example: Romeo and Juliet

Open Ended

Read this prologue and tell me what do you think this story is going to be about?

Multiple Choice

Dialogue is there a conversation between characters that may reveal their traits, and advance the action of a narrative. In fiction and nonfiction, quotation marks indicate a speaker's exact words and a new paragraph usually indicates a change of speaker.

Read this. Is dialogue?

• Yes

• No

Match

Match the following

• Biggest part of the story

• Conflict

• Talking in the story

• Narrative elements

• Yellow as a rose is an example of

Climax

I lost my phone

Dialogue

Parts that help create a story

Imagery

• Climax

• I lost my phone

• Dialogue

• Parts that help create a story

• Imagery