Narrative Writing Review

______________ drives the story. It creates tension and builds suspense.

• Setting

• Plot

• Conflict

What is a conflict?

• The exciting part of the story, the rising action

• The end of the story

• A struggle between two characters or an issue the character has

When planning your narrative, you will have a plot. What are the three essential ideas you will use when creating a plot?

• There is nothing I need to create a plot

• end

• middle

• beginning

Which punctuation marks are used to let the reader know a character is speaking?

• Exclamation mark

• Quotation marks

• Dashes

• Commas

the place, time period, and duration of a story is called-

• setting

• plot

• characters

• theme

The people or creatures in the story that help the story develop

• Setting

• Character

• Plot

• Theme

What is the purpose of narrative writing?

• To give clear instructions.

• To persuade the reader to agree with the ideas in the text.

• To entertain the reader and hold their interest.

• To describe a past event.

Answer explanation

The purpose of narrative writing is to entertain the reader and hold their interest, making it the correct choice among the options provided.

Which one of these is NOT a type of narrative?

• Fairy tale

• Myth

• Textbook

• Science-Fiction

Answer explanation

The correct choice is 'Textbook' because it is not a type of narrative, unlike fairy tales, myths, and science-fiction which are all narrative genres.

When should you use quotation marks?

• To show when a character is being sarcastic.

• To show what a character is feeling.

• To show what a character is thinking.

• To show when a character is speaking.

Answer explanation

To show when a character is speaking.

What is inner thought?

• A conversation between two or more characters.

• Any language that contains or uses figures of speech.

• Details that relate to the five senses.

• What a character is thinking, but doesn't say aloud.

Answer explanation

Inner thought refers to what a character is thinking, but doesn't say aloud, making it the correct choice in this context.