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    Features of Narrative Text

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    This document defines and describes the key elements of narrative text, including theme, setting, characters, point of view, characterization, dialogue, plot, climax, conflict, exposition, rising action, falling action, and resolution. It explains each element and provides examples. Additional narrative elements mentioned include mood, tone, voice, and sensory language.

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    Features of Narrative Text

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    This document defines and describes the key elements of narrative text, including theme, setting, characters, point of view, characterization, dialogue, plot, climax, conflict, exposition, rising action, falling action, and resolution. It explains each element and provides examples. Additional narrative elements mentioned include mood, tone, voice, and sensory language.

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    Elements of

    Narrative Text
    OBJECTIVES
    • Identify elements of narrative text

    • Define elements of narrative text

    • Demonstrate mastery of narrative


    text elements
    What is a narrative
    text?
    • Narrative text is writing that tells a story. It can
    be a made-up story (fiction) or one that is
    based on real events.

    • To narrate is the verb used to describe the act of


    telling a story, so a narrative is the story and the
    narrator is the person telling the story.
    • Theme • Plot
    - exposition statement
    • Setting
    - rising action
    • Characters - conflict
    • Point of view - climax
    - falling action
    • Characterization
    - resolution
    • Dialogue
    THEME
    • The main idea of a story, usually expressed as a
    generalization. It’s the big message, the big idea.

    SETTING
    •The time and place in a story.
    CHARACTERS
    The people (or actors) in the story.

    • Protagonist-The “good guy” or hero/heroin in


    the story who struggles against the conflict,
    usually the main character.
    • Antagonist –The “bad guy” or villain in the
    story that creates conflict for the protagonist.
    CHARACTERIZATION

    The description of the


    personalities of the
    characters in the story
    and the way in which an
    author reveals their
    personalities.
    POINT OF VIEW
    • First Person –the story is told from the
    main character’s point of view and uses
    the pronouns “I” and “we”.
    • Second Person-usually for
    instructions; uses the pronouns “you”
    and “your” (the author is speaking to the reader)
    • Third Person –the story is told
    from an outside point of view and
    uses the pronouns “he” and “she”
    and “they”.
    Dialogue
    Characters talking using quotation
    marks.

    “May we ask where you’ve been, Miss


    Everdeen?” Effie asks.
    “So where haven’t you been?” Says
    Haymitch in a bored voice.
    PLOT
    The series of related events that make
    up a story.
    Exposition
    Rising Action
    Climax
    Falling Action
    Resolution
    PLOT DIAGRAM
    Climax

    Conflict

    Exposition Resolution
    PLOT
    Exposition - The part of the plot that
    tells how the story begins.
    You learn….
     Characters
     Setting
     Conflict (problem)
     Background information
    The rest of the story is based on this information
    PLOT
    Rising Action - The events in the story
    that lead up to the climax.

    • Readers learn more about the characters


    and the conflict.

    • Each event that happens leads the reader


    closer to the climax of the story.
    PLOT
    Conflict- A struggle between an
    opposing force.

    Internal conflict- the character struggles with


    his or her own needs, desires, or emotions.
    External conflict- a character struggles with
    an outside force such as another character or
    something in nature

    Man vs self Man vs man


    Man vs nature Man vs society
    PLOT
    Climax - The point of crisis in the plot.

    • When the outcome of the conflict is decided one way


    or the other.
    – the turning point
    • The event of highest interest or excitement in the story.
    • Nothing is the same in the story after this event because
    the main character changes or learns something that
    changes everything.
    PLOT
    Falling action - The events that lead to
    the conclusion after the climax.

    • These events are a result of the changes in, or


    the decisions made by, the main character
    during the climax.

    • Everything in the falling action leads to the


    conclusion of the story.
    PLOT
    Resolution - The part of the plot that
    reveals the final outcome.

    ◊ The conflicts are solved and all questions are answered.


    PLOT DIAGRAM
    Climax

    Conflict

    Exposition Resolution
    What else is an element?

    • Mood
    • Tone
    • Voice
    • Sensory language
    What else is an element?
    • Voice- the way a piece of writing sounds
    • Mood- the overall emotion created by a
    work of poetry or literature
    • Tone- the attitude that a writer takes
    toward the audience, a subject, or a
    character
    • Sensory language- writing that appeals to
    one or more of the five senses

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