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NarrativePersonal and story writing
Narrative Writing
•A Narrative is a STORY.•Narrative ~ A fictional story you can make up all of the events.•Personal Narrative~ A TRUE story about an event that happened in your life.
OrderBeginning: • Introduce characters, place
Middle: • Events happen (Rising Action)• Use details • Keep the events progressing forward
End: • Result (Falling Action)
Narrative Writing
• Tell a fictional story.•Write the events in order. • Remember your plot diagrams.• You can do flashbacks.• Paragraphs can be any size. INDENT!• Still proper grammar, spelling and
capitalization.
Dialogue• Indent for each new speaker.• Use quotation marks. • Use commas inside the quotation marks,
then who said the words.
Dialogue “Wow,” Jim said as he walked down the
eerie hallway to his destination. “I can’t believe it!”
“Hey, wait up!” Joe yelled, as he saw his friends shadow disappear around the corner. Blah, blah, blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, Blah,blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah.
“Relax bro,” Jim retorted.
Back and Forth Conversation
“Look at that,” Jim said. “I know,” whispered Joe. “How do you know?” “I just do.” “Yeah, right.”(You can stop using their names each time
when they talk back and forth right away).
Continued Talking• No Capital letter if you continue after you
write: I said or Joe said “Sir,” I said to the officer, “the kid just
broke his arm.”
Narrative Vocabulary
•Cause and effect: Do something, something happens
•Chronological order: Events go in order of TIME
Narrative Vocabulary
• Flashback: Go back in time to explain an event or feeling• Foreshadowing: Hints to future events•Adjectives: Describe nouns• Sensory language: See, hear, feel, taste,
smell
Figurative Language
• Idiom: Piece of cake•Personification: The wind was
screaming…•Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp
Figurative Language
• Simile: She was like a tiger on the court.•Metaphor: She was a tiger…•Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could eat a
horse. I am so tired I could die.•Alliteration: Billy Bob bought a bright blue
BMW.
Point of View
First Person: • Character is the narrator.• Use “I” and “we”
Introduction
• The “Hook”• Catch the readers attention!•Provide the information the reader will
need to understand the story•Who are the major characters? When and
where is it taking place? Is it a story about something that happened to you, the writer, or is it fiction?
Body paragraphs
• Show – don’t tell• includes details and descriptions• Use all five senses to add details about what
you heard, saw, and felt during the event. • For example, “My heart jumped as the dark shape of the brown
grizzly lurched toward me out of the woods” provides more information about what the writer saw and felt than, “I saw a bear when I was hiking”. Supporting Evidence In a personal
• Passage of time• Chronological order• Transitions
Conclusion
The Moral of the Story• Include the closing action of the event• Include some reflection or analysis of the
significance of the event to the writer.• What lesson did you learn?• How has what happened to you affected your life
now?
Name: ___________________________
Title: ___________________________________
Main Character (s) :__________________________________________________________________________________
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Setting (Where & When) :____________________________________________________________________________
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Main Conflict:______________________________________________________________________________________
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Plot Beginning :_____________________________________________________________________________________
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Plot Middle :_______________________________________________________________________________________
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Climax :___________________________________________________________________________________________
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Plot Resolution:_____________________________________________________________________________________
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Personal Narrative PLANNER
Personal Narrative Checklist
1. The introduction has an eff ective hook.
2. The essay contains suffi cient background information,
including setting and revelation of character.
3. The essay focuses on one main incident in the author’s lif e.
4. The events of the story are arranged in chronological order.
5. The essay uses creative word choice, sensory details
and figurative language.
6. The essay reveals the author's thoughts and feelings throughout.
7. Transitions of time, place and events are used eff ectively
to connect ideas.
8. The conclusion reveals the overall meaning of the event, the lesson
learned, or the insight gained from the experience for the author.
9. The essay is relatively free of mistakes in spelling, grammar, usage,
mechanics.
10. The essay is legible and properly formatted.