CHAPTER 2

• Narrative Paragraph tells what happened and establishes facts. It is sharing of personal experiences that offers lessons and insights.
• It is the time and location in which a story takes place. It is a description of where and when the story takes place.

  Setting
• The significant part of the story which features the characters as well as the protagonist and antagonist.

  Characteristics
• It is the logical series of events.

  Plot
• It is the part of the story where the characters and the setting are revealed.

  Exposition
• It is where the events in the story become complicated and the conflict in the story is exposed.

  Rising Action
• The final resolution of the plot in the story.

  Denouement
• The events and complications begin to themselves.

  Falling Action
• This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story.

  Climax
• It is the perspective of the writer in narrating the story.

  Poin of View
• The story is told by the protagonist or one of the characters using pronouns I, me, we.

  First Person
• The narrator has full to the thoughts of all characters

  Third Person, omniscient
• The narrator is not part of the story but the batame describes the events that happen. The writer uses the pronouns he, she, him, and her.

  Third Person, limited
• The tells the story in second point of view using the pronouns you, yours, and your.

  Second Person
• A descriptive paragraph uses sensory details such as sights, smells, tastes feelings and textures to create vivid images in the reader's mind.

  Description
• A comparison tells how two things are similar. A contrast tells how they are different.

  Comparison and Contrast
• Two ways in Comparison and Contrast

  Subject by subject

  Point by point
• You present all of the facts and supporting details about one topic, and then you give all the facts and supporting details about the other topic.

  Subject by Subject
• You discuss each point for both subjects before giving on the next point.

  Point by Point
• In a paragraph, you tell readers how a collection of items can be sorted into categories. It is an activity of sorting items (people, things, idea) into categories:

  Classification
• 2 types of Classification

  Terms that signals Classification

  Transitional Expression
• explains what a term means. When you want your readers to know exactly how you are using a certain term or an unfamiliar concept, you definition,

  Definition
• 2 types of Definition

  Formal Definition

  Informal Definition
• it is a definition sentence which is extended into a paragraph by adding meanings, descriptions, narrations, and other kinds of paragraph development to make clear the term being defined.

  Definition Paragraph
• A cause is what make a particular thing happen. An effect is what results. from a particular situation, activity, or behavior.

  Cause and Effect
• It is a comparison in which an idea or a thing is compared to another thing that is quite different from it. It aims at explaining that idea or thing by comparing it to something that is familiar.

  Analogy
• explains how something works or tells how to do something. The rest of the paragraph should discuss the steps in the process, one by one, in the order in which they occur.

  Process
• 2 types of Process

  Process Explanation

  Instructions
• The writer's purpose is to give readers the information they need to perform a task or activity.

  Instructions
• The writer's purpose is simply to help readers understand a process, not perform it.

  Process Explanation
• How to link a problem paragraph to a solution paragraph, these are paragraphs that identify a problem of some kind and report on an innovative solution.

  Problem and Solutions
• Tries to convince the reader that a particular point of view is of consideration.

  Persuasive Paragraph
• Factual, fair


  Objective
• Idea, biased


  Subjective