NARRATIVE

Personal 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.
ORDER
Beginning:
Introduce characters, place
Middle:
Events happen (Rising Action)
Use details
Keep the events progressing
forward (No two pages on how the dude made a
sandwich).

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.
 “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”

Second Person: When the narrator

puts the reader in place of the main
character. Uses “you”

Third Person Limited: Only see the

perspective of one character.
POINT OF VIEW
Third Person Omniscient:
The narrator knows the thoughts of
all characters. You see the story from
many perspectives.
FIRST JOURNAL ENTRY
- WHO AM I?: MY PERSONAL NARRATIVE
- DEADLINE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, CLASS TIME