LEQ #2: Narrative Vocabulary Quiz

Narrative Technique

• a strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting
• The way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and often specifically referring to the ordering of the plot.
• writing uses forms like letters, diary and journal entries, and other types of documents, to tell a story and deliver a message

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RI.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

Narrative Structure

• The way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and often specifically referring to the ordering of the plot.
• a strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting
• when time starts with the most recent events going back to the oldest

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Narrative Hook

• the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that he or she will keep on reading
• The way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and often specifically referring to the ordering of the plot.
• when a sequence is presented exactly as it occurs without any edits or jump in time

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

Chronological

• arranged in or according to the order of time
• when time starts with the most recent events going back to the oldest
• a history or background, especially one created for a fictional character

Reverse chronological

• when time starts with the most recent events going back to the oldest
• arranged in or according to the order of time
• a history or background, especially one created for a fictional character

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Real-time

• when a sequence is presented exactly as it occurs without any edits or jump in time
• a history or background, especially one created for a fictional character
• arranged in or according to the order of time

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Epistolic or diary

• writing uses forms like letters, diary and journal entries, and other types of documents, to tell a story and deliver a message
• when a sequence is presented exactly as it occurs without any edits or jump in time
• a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Backstory

• a history or background, especially one created for a fictional character
• a narrator who is not trustworthy, whose rendition of the events must be taken with a grain of salt
• a strategy used in the making of a narrative to relay information to the audience and, particularly, to "develop" the narrative, usually in order to make it more complete, complicated, or interesting

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Flashforward (prolepsis)

• the plot goes ahead of time; meaning a scene that interrupts and takes the narrative forward in time from the current time in the story
• writing uses forms like letters, diary and journal entries, and other types of documents, to tell a story and deliver a message
• when a sequence is presented exactly as it occurs without any edits or jump in time

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Foreshadowing

• a narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted
• the reader (or viewer) is lured into the intrigue of the plot and left reeling by a grand revelation or turn of events they didn't see coming
• a narrator who is not trustworthy, whose rendition of the events must be taken with a grain of salt

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5