Important Narrative Vocabulary

What do characters say to each other or think to themselves?

• Characters

• Setting

• Events

• Dialogue

• Descriptive details

The people or animals in the story are known as?

• Characters

• Setting

• Events

• Dialogue

• Descriptive details

Where and when does the story take place?

• Characters

• Setting

• Events

• Dialogue

• Descriptive details

What are the big things that happen in the story?

• Characters

• Setting

• Events

• Dialogue

• Descriptive details

Concrete ideas, precise words, and figurative language are used to show what characters see, hear, smell, feel, etc.

• characters

• setting

• events

• dialogue

• descriptive details

The person who is telling the story is called?

• narrator

• setting

• events

• dialogue

• descriptive details

What do you call a story that is based on a real or imagined experience?

• opinion

• narrative

• informational