Writing Lab Baseline

Another word for a narrative is __________?

• Story

• Poem

• Play

• Title

The most important thing you do when you begin a narrative is...?

• Make the reader want to continue reading

• Say where the narrative took place

• Name all the characters

• Explain when the action took place

When choosing details for your story, you should...

• Use as many details as you can

• Choose only the most important details

• Write the details in the order in which you think of them

• Use as few details as possible

The words spoken by a character in a narrative are called...

• Dialogue

• Setting

• Action

• Protagonist

To show which words a character speaks, place quotation marks...

• Before and after the character's exact words

• Only at the end of the character's exact words

• Only at the beginning of the character's exact words

• At the beginning and end of the entire paragraph

The five types of sensory details are...

• Smell, Taste, Touch, See, Hear

• Smell, Hear, Speak, Silence, Dialogue

• Smell, Plot, Listen, Touch, See

• Dialogue, Plot, Character, Setting, Conflict

Dialogue is 

• Action at the end of the story
• The conversation between characters
• Authors point of view
• Chronological order

The person telling the story.

• Narrator
• First Person Point of View
• Third Person Point of View
• Narrative Writing

Fiction or non-fiction writing that tells a story.

• Descriptive Writing
• Expository Writing
• Narrator
• Narrative Writing

Opening of the story; author describes the setting, gives background info & intros characters.

• Narrator
• Conflict
• Exposition
• Setting