ENGLISH: FINALS

• Narrative

  • is a story
  • 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 OF A NARRATIVE:

  • BEGINNING
  • MIDDLE
  • END
• BEGINNING - introduce characters and 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
• DIALOGUE

  • Indent for each new speaker
  • Use quotation marks
  • Use commas inside the quotation marks, then who said the words
• BACK AND FORTH CONVERSATION

  Example:

  "Look at that." Jim said.

  "I know", said Joe.

  "How do you know?"

  "I just do"

  "Yeah, right."
• CONTINUED WRITING

  • No capital letter if you continue after you write
• CAUSE AND EFFECT - something, something happens
• CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER - events go in order of time
• 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
• 4 POINT OF VIEW IN NARRATIVE WRITING:

  • First Person
  • Second Person
  • Third person limited
  • Third person omniscient
• First Person : Character is the narrator, use "I" and "We"
• Second Person: Narrator puts the reader in place of the main character, uses "you"
• Third person limited: only see the perspective of one character
• Third person omniscient: The narrator knows the thoughts of characters. You see the story from many perspectives.
• WRITING A TITLE FOR A NARRATIVE

  • Make your title unique and catchy
  • Use alliteration
  • Use rhyming words
  • Uses a catchy or important phrase in the narrative itself
  • Be humorous
• Onomatopoeia

  • is when a word's pronunciation imitates its sounds
  • words represent sounds
• Interjections - are a part of speech where the speaker expresses excitement or emotion