CNF: PERSONAL NARRATIVE AND TRUE NARRATIVE

• NATURE OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE

  • Ideas and concepts presented in the text are all based on facts and or historical truth
  • Personal and True Narratives are often interchanges in meaning because of the overlapping characteristics they have
• Personal Narrative is a literary piece that centers on the author's life, particularly on an aspect or event that contains observations, insights, and even personal commentary on the experience shared
• True Narratives is a story based on actual events, written in a form of a novel. Most of its elements and writings techniques are similar to a fictional narrative
• ELEMENTS OF A PERSONAL NARRATIVE

  Content Focus the goal is not to present all the life experiences but to identify a single to a few instances that are worth sharing. The point of a personal narrative is the central idea. This is the author's presentation and elaboration of the insights or realizations obtained from the life experience
• ELEMENTS OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE


  Characterization helps the readers understand the other people involved in the story. It depends on the presentation of the people who contribute to the author's realization of a certain life experience. As the narrative progresses, so does the occurence of the character development
• ELEMENTS OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE

  Power Structure is the "show, dont tell" approach which is a good way to navigate through the details of the narrative. It is important to ensure that the details in the text are parallel to the central idea that the author desires to convey
• ELEMENTS OF PERSONAL NARRATIVE

  Logical Structure in a personal narrative it does not need to be chronologically detailed. Since the focus is on one event only, the best way to present is by coordinating all details that will boil down to the realization of the central idea, which is the goal of a personal narrative