Narrative Conventions

What type of writing is this prompt?

• Informational/Explanatory

• Narrative

• Argumentative

What type of writing is this prompt? You have just read “Two Finalists Vie to Be ‘Master Chef Junior’” about the recollection of two young boys childhood experience competing in a kitchen cook-off. Write a story from the viewpoint of one of the young boys depicting this particular event. Draw evidence from the text to describe how the young boy responds to the event is the text compared to the other young boy. Use story-writing techniques, as well as precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to capture the action and convey the experiences and events of the character. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling in your response.

• Informational/Explanatory

• Narrative

• Argumentative

What writing type is this prompt? Read the excerpts from “The Georges and the Jewels” and “Believing in Horses”. Analyze the main ideas and details of events in the text to aid in writing a story. Use the information to write a well sequenced, first-hand story that uses dialogue and transition words and phrases to convey what it would have been like to ride along beside Abby or Sadie.

• Informational/Explanatory

• Narrative

• Argumentative

Which of the following means the time and the place in which the events of the story happen?

• Setting 

• Dialogue

• Plot

• Characterisation

Which of these occurs first in the plot of a narrative?

• Climax

• Rising action

• Resolution

• Falling action

What word refers to the MAIN struggle between the protagonist and antagonist of a narrative?

• Conflict

• Climax

• Conclusion

• Cliffhanger

What type of plot element is the introduction to the story where the setting is introduced and the characters are developed.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Conflict

• Resolution

What plot element is described as the problem in a story?

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Falling Action

• Exposition

Climax is... 

• Events that make up a story

• The turning point for the protagonist

• setting and characters

• the solution to the problem

True or false:
A narrative piece of writing is always written in first person.

• True

• False