Narrative Vocabulary

the time and place where a narrative occurs

• plot

• setting

• characters

• theme

conversation between characters

• setting

• climax

• dialogue

• characterization

point of view in which the narrator is a character in the story telling what he or she knows

• first person

• third person

the perspective from which a story is told

• point of view

• narrative

• dialogue

• narrator

a type of writing that tells a story

• fable

• informational

• fiction

• narrative

the person telling the story

• narrator

• first person

• third person

• character

a struggle between opposing forces

• resolution

• exposition

• conclusion

• conflict

the outcome of the conflict of a story; when loose ends are wrapped up

• introduction

• rising action

• climax

• resolution

a person or animal that takes part in the action of a literary work

• narrator

• first person

• third person

• character

What must go around dialogue when writing a narrative?

• dashes

• spaces

• quotation marks

• paragraphs