Elements of a Narrative

When planning your narrative you will have a plot. What are the three essential ideas you will use when creating a plot?

• There is nothing I need to create the plot.

• beginning

• middle

• end

What is a narrative?

• A story

• A biography

• Poetry

• A research project

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

• Chronological order

• Dialogue

• Setting

• Transition words

What is the purpose of narrative text?

• To describe particular thing

• To entertain the reader

• To notice someone

• To tell the past event

Writers use _____________ -they they saw, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted.

• pictures

• main ideas

• sensory details

• mood

Your personal narrative must have included dialogue.

True or False?

• True

• False

What is the first step of the writing process?

• Writing a final draft/Publish

• Writing a rough draft

• Revising/Editing

• Brainstorming/Prewriting

What is the second step in the writing process?

• Putting my thoughts on paper

• Reading my paper to a friend

• Deciding on the events, characters, and setting(s)

• Fixing the errors in my paper

Dialogue is

• Authors point of view

• Chronological order

• Action at the end of the story

• The conversation between characters

The person telling the story

• narrator

• narrative

• narration

• narrate