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    The document provides an overview of key elements of effective narrative writing, including establishing a sequence of events, using vivid description, maintaining a consistent point of view and verb tense, having a well-defined theme or point, and employing narrative devices like anecdotes, flashbacks, time stretches/summaries, and dialogue to enrich the story. The example narrative "The Day the Dancers Came" is cited as exploring the theme of longing for one's homeland.

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    The document provides an overview of key elements of effective narrative writing, including establishing a sequence of events, using vivid description, maintaining a consistent point of view and verb tense, having a well-defined theme or point, and employing narrative devices like anecdotes, flashbacks, time stretches/summaries, and dialogue to enrich the story. The example narrative "The Day the Dancers Came" is cited as exploring the theme of longing for one's homeland.

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    The document provides an overview of key elements of effective narrative writing, including establishing a sequence of events, using vivid description, maintaining a consistent point of view and verb tense, having a well-defined theme or point, and employing narrative devices like anecdotes, flashbacks, time stretches/summaries, and dialogue to enrich the story. The example narrative "The Day the Dancers Came" is cited as exploring the theme of longing for one's homeland.

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    Narrative

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    Mamin Chan
    The document provides an overview of key elements of effective narrative writing, including establishing a sequence of events, using vivid description, maintaining a consistent point of view and verb tense, having a well-defined theme or point, and employing narrative devices like anecdotes, flashbacks, time stretches/summaries, and dialogue to enrich the story. The example narrative "The Day the Dancers Came" is cited as exploring the theme of longing for one's homeland.

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    NARRATIVE

    THE DAY THE DANCERS CAME


    Bienvenido N. Santos
    NARRATIVE WRITING
     NARRATION
     STORYTELLING
     IT IS A SEQUENCE OF EVENT
     CREATING A WORLD BASED ON WRITER’S IMAGINATION

     EFFECTIVE NARRATIVE
     WHICH MAKES THE READER THINK AND COMPEL HIM/HER TO READ THE
    NARRATIVE AGAIN.
    VIVID DESCRIPTION OF DETAILS

     DESCRIPTION IS APPEALING TO THE FIVE SENSES OF THE HUMAN BODY


    CONSISTENT POINT OF VIEW (POV)

     THIRD PERSON POINT OF VIEW


     GENERALLY USED TO CONVEY THE
    NARRATOR AS OMNISCIENT AND
    DISPASSIONATE OBSERVER.
    CONSISTENT VERB TENSE

     NEEDED TO MAKE CLEAR TO THE READER


    WHETHER THE STORY IN THE NARRATIVE
    HAD ALREADY HAPPENED, HAS BEEN
    HAPPENING FOR SOME TIME NOW,
    HAPPENS ON A REGULAR BASIS, IS
    CURRENTLY HAPPENING AND WILL DO SO
    INDEFINITELY, OR WILL HAPPEN SOMETIME
    IN THE FUTURE.
    WELL DEFINED POINT OR
    SIGNIFICANT
     IN ANY NARRATIVE IS SOMETHING AKIN TO THE LITERARY ELEMENT WE
    CALL THEME.

     THEME
     UNIFYING THOUGHT OR IDEA BORN OUT OF ALL THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF
    THE STORY

     THE DAY THE DANCERS CAME


     LONGING FOR THE HOMELAND
    NARRATIVE DEVICES

    TO ADD FLAVOR AND ENRICH


    THE MEANING OF THEIR STORIES
    ANECDOTE
    BRIEFNARRATIVE THAT ARE
    WRITTEN FROM THE WRITER’S
    MEMORY
    FLASHBACK
     AN EVENT THAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST
    TIME STRETCH

     SINGLE EVENT IN THE STORY THAT THE AUTHORS FOCUSESWRITING


    ABOUT
    TIME SUMMARY

     AS OPPOSED TO A TIME STRETC


     CHARACTERIZED BY JAMMING TOGETHER MULTIPLE EVENTS AND/OR
    SHORTENING A RELATIVELY LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

     SUCH AS:
     “IN A SINGLE DAY……” , “OVERNIGHT…” , “AFTER THE WINTER
    SEASON….” , “AFTER AROUND A WEEK OR SO…..” , “ A FEW YEARS
    LATER…..” , ETC.
    FLASHFORWARD

     OPPOSED TO FLASHBACK
     FLASHFORWARD IS AN EVENT THAT HAS YET TO HAPPEN IN THE STORY
    DIALOUGE
    A NARRATIVE NOT ONLY HAVE A
    NARRATOR WHO TELLS A STORY IN
    ACCORDANCE TO HOW HE/SHE OBSERVES
    A SEQUENCE OF EVENTS. WRITERS ALSO
    INCLUDE DIALOUGES, A WORD OR SERIES
    OF WORDS ENCLOSED IN A PAIR OF
    QUOTATION MARKS, WHICH SIGNAL THE
    CHARACTERS’ SPOKEN LANGUAGE.

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