Narrative Essay

All narratives have...

• characters

• settings

• points of view

• plot

How many paragraphs are typically in a narrative essay?

• 1

• 7

• 3

• 5

What do you think your narrative essay topic will be? Brainstorm by drawing a picture.

Explain why you think narrative essay writing is important?

Which is true of a personal narrative?

• its purpose is to give the reader information.

• its purpose is to persuade the reader.

• its purpose is to tell the reader a true story from the narrator's life.

• its purpose is to tell the reader a fictional story from the narrator's life.

Narrative writing can be set up in 1-3-1 style.

• true

• false

Narrative writing should contain which of these?

• imagery

• dialogue

• thesis

• sensory details

• statistics

Personal narratives are typically in what type of order?

• alphabetical

• numerical

• chronological

• medical

When a personal narrative does not follow time order, but instead starts the story and THEN occasionally goes back and tells us about something that happened earlier. This is called a:

• flashback

• mistake

• time lapse

• foreshadowing

Personal narratives can contain which things?

• hooks

• dialogue

• mystery

• cliffhangers

• flashbacks