A narrative is a story, which can either be fiction or non-fiction.
Features:
Features:
- Plot - a beginning a middle and an end
- Plot Graph:
Introduction
Inciting Incident - the conflict is introduced
Rising Action
The Climax - the most intense part of the story
Falling Action
Conclusion/Resolution
- Conflict:
Person versus Person
Person versus Self
Person versus world/machine/supernatural
Person versus nature - Setting
- Narration:
First Person - "I" - a character inside the story tells the story
Third Person - a narrator tells the story
Limited - Told from one character's point of view
Omniscient - multiple characters points of view - the narrator is "all-knowing"
- Description
DIRECT - telling information
INDIRECT - showing
Uses description to describe a person, a character trait, a setting, etc.
Uses sensory information (sight smell taste touch hear)
Allows the reader to draw his/her own conclusions
YOUR TASK:
Imagine you are an athlete or spectator at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. How are you feeling? What's your story? Use narrative techniques to describe this person's experiences. (10-15 sentences)