1.3 NARRATIVE CONVECTIONS

• Different types of writing styles

  • Persuasive Writing
  • Expository Writing
  • Narrative Writing
  • Descriptive Writing
• 3 General purposes:

  • To inform
  • To entertain
  • To persuade
• Narrative Conventions - tools that writer use in creating a story
• Types of Narrative Convections

  • Characters
  • Setting
  • Point of View
  • Plot
  • Theme
  • Style
• Characterization - means by which writers construct, present, and reveal characters.
• Character roles:

  • Protagonist
  • Antagonist
  • Supporting Character
  • Minor Character
• Speech - What they say and how they say it
• Thoughts - What they think about
• Appearance - How they look and what they wear
• Actions - The things they do ang how they behave
• Others - What other feels about them
• Protagonist - Main character of the Story
• Antagonist - The villain, enemy, or the evildoer of the story
• Dynamic Character - Character who develops and changes overtime
• Static Character - A character who do not develop nor change in the story
• Round Character - Complex or risk taker
• Flat Character - Posses only a singular trait
• Stock Characters - Stereotyped into playing a part of the story
• Foil character - individual who plays a contrasting character to the protagonist
• Setting - Includes time, place, event, or a mood in the story
• Time - Time of the day or the year in which the story is set
• Place - Room, building, or place that the story is set
• Atmosphere - is created through particular word choices, descriptive language and structural features
• Point of View - Distance between the reader and the character in a story
• First Person Point of View - Narrator could be the protagonist or other character
• Second Person Point of View - Narrator is an observer or participant in the story
• Third Person Point of View Omniscient - Narrator knows all and sees all
• Third person point of view Limited - Narrator only focuses on the emotions of one character
• Plot - Sequence of events and the arrangement of these elements
• Basic Structure of plot in order

  1. Exposition
  2. Rising Action
  3. Climax
  4. Falling Action
  5. Resolution
• Exposition - The reader learns the background of the story.
• Rising Action - The protagonist faces one or more challenges
• Climax - Highest point of tension
• Climax - Reader realizes who or what will win in the story
• Falling action - Actions that help to solve the problem leading to resolution
• Resolution - Final outcome of the conflict, weather it is solved or resolved.
• Point of View (POV) - Refers to whose perspective we are seeing the events unfold from
• Character vs character - Character faces a problem with another character
• Character vs self - Character faces an internal problem
• Character vs society - Characters' beliefs arent accepted by other people