Narrative Writing: Prewriting/Intro/POV (Review)

What is a narrative?

• facts

• a personal essay

• instructions

• a comparison between two topics

What are the features of a narrative? (Check all that apply.)

• First Person Point of View

• Sensory Details

• Argument

• Informational facts

• Based on a personal story or experience (can be fiction)

Where should the thesis statement be in an essay?

• at the beginning of the first paragraph

• the last sentence of the second paragraph

• at the end of the first paragraph

• restated in every paragraph of the essay

At least how many paragraphs should your narrative be?

• 1

• 3

• 5

• 7

What POV is used to write a narrative essay?

• Third Person Omniscient

• Second Person

• Third Person Objective

• First Person

A sentence can only be a sentence with these two parts:

• A subject and a compound subject

• A compound predicate and a verb

• A subject and a predicate

• A predicate and a verb

Every sentence needs to begin with...

• a capital letter

• a verb

• punctuation

What should the last paragraph of your narrative essay do?

• wrap up the story

• tell a great joke

• add just a little bit more information to keep the reader interested

• I'm not sure.

In 3rd person objective, you get to know the thoughts and feelings of...

• one character

• all characters

• three characters

• none of the characters

Point of View can be defined as...

• who is telling the story

• why the story is told

• how the story is told

• when the story is told

Answer explanation

The point of view is HOW the story is told, not who.

Is the story told by the narrator about him/herself? (1st person: I, me, mine)

Is the narrator talking directly to the reader? (2nd person: you, yours)

Is the narrator telling a story where he/she is not talking about their own personal experience, about characters but not talking directly to the reader as they would be in the 2nd person POV, or about other characters in general? (3rd person: he/she/they/it)

HOW the story is being told determines the POV