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    Evaluating Narratives

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    This document outlines elements to evaluate when analyzing narratives, including setting, characters, plot, theme, and point of view. It discusses how setting can change and clues are given rather than being directly stated. Characters are important and can be heroes or villains, shown through description, actions, and words of others. Plot can be chronological, use flashbacks, or begin in medias res. Theme is conveyed through various story elements. Point of view can be first person from a character or omniscient from an outside observer.

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    This document outlines elements to evaluate when analyzing narratives, including setting, characters, plot, theme, and point of view. It discusses how setting can change and clues are given rather than being directly stated. Characters are important and can be heroes or villains, shown through description, actions, and words of others. Plot can be chronological, use flashbacks, or begin in medias res. Theme is conveyed through various story elements. Point of view can be first person from a character or omniscient from an outside observer.

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    This document outlines elements to evaluate when analyzing narratives, including setting, characters, plot, theme, and point of view. It discusses how setting can change and clues are given rather than being directly stated. Characters are important and can be heroes or villains, shown through description, actions, and words of others. Plot can be chronological, use flashbacks, or begin in medias res. Theme is conveyed through various story elements. Point of view can be first person from a character or omniscient from an outside observer.

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    Evaluating Narratives

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    Mariel Solanoy
    This document outlines elements to evaluate when analyzing narratives, including setting, characters, plot, theme, and point of view. It discusses how setting can change and clues are given rather than being directly stated. Characters are important and can be heroes or villains, shown through description, actions, and words of others. Plot can be chronological, use flashbacks, or begin in medias res. Theme is conveyed through various story elements. Point of view can be first person from a character or omniscient from an outside observer.

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    Objectives:

     Evaluate narratives based on how the author developed the elements:


    -Setting
    -Characters (Heroes and Villains)
     Evaluate narratives based on how the author developed the elements:
    -Plot (chronological-sequential, en medias res, flashback)
     Evaluate narratives based on how the author developed the elements:
    -theme
    -point of view
    1. Setting
     the setting can change
     Time may not be described directly and can move back and forth.
     The place where the scene is happening can change abruptly.
     makes the story vivid and interesting
     is not said directly, instead clues are given for the readers to infer
    2. Characters
     are also important elements in narratives
     refer to the persons or animals around which the story revolves
     are the heroes or villains in the story
    The traits of the characters in a story are shown in various ways
     Through the author’s use of descriptive words about the characters.
     By the actions of the characters themselves.
     By the words coming from the other characters or the narrator in the story.
    3. Plot
    Kinds of Plot
    1. Chronological order
    - telling the events in sequence
    - the story flows from the beginning, continues on the middle and lead to a conclusion
    2. Flashback
    - in the middle of the story, a character or the narrator remembers what happened in the past and
    begin telling it.
    3. In medias res
    - stories that begin in the middle and then through a series of flashbacks tell what had happened
    in the past, then, proceeds to the conclusion.
    - The story begins in the middle.
    4. Theme
    - through description of the character, the words used by the author, the events, and the setting of the
    story
    5. Point of View
    - who is telling the story
    Types of Point of View
    1. First person
    - one of the characters
    2. Omniscient
    - someone watching, not a character

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