Personal Narrative Features

Personal narratives should start with a catchy introduction that makes the reader want to keep reading.

• True

• False

Dialogue is:

• words spoken by someone

• good to include in a personal narrative

• surrounded by quotation marks

• all three choices

Personal narratives should always include every detail that happened to you.

• True

• False

A personal narrative uses words like...

• he, she, them, they

• I, me, my mine, myself

Your personal narrative must have included a _______________, ______________, and an ______________. 

• main idea, theme, conclusion

• beginning, middle, end

• problem, story, senses.

• beginning, authors purpose, resolution

A personal narrative communicates a distinct __________________ or overall feeling. 

• details

• dialogue

• mood

• solution 

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

• sensory details

• main ideas

• pictures

• mood

Your personal narrative must have included dialogue.
True or False?

• True

• False

A narrative tells...

• a problem

• a story

• facts

• details

What is a good way to begin a personal narrative?

• Question

• action

• dialogue

• all of the above