This document discusses different types of narratives including biographies, memoirs, and personal narratives. Biographies follow a chronological order and timeline to tell the story of another person's life. Memoirs are also chronological accounts but are written based on the author's firsthand experiences. Personal narratives tell an important story from the writer's life and may use flashbacks or flash forwards to interrupt the chronological sequence. The organizational structure of a personal narrative includes an introduction, topic sentence, body paragraphs, connecting sentences, and conclusion.

1. TYPES OF NARRATIVE
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2. What is a narrative?
 a story or account of events, experiences, or the like, whether true or
fictitious

3. Types of narrative
 Biography
 Memoirs
 Personal narrative

4. Biography
 Definition: a written account of another person's life.
 A biography follows a “chronological order”, following a certain “timeline”.
o Chronological order: the arrangement of things following one after another in
time.
o Timeline: a linear representation of important events in the order in which
they occurred.
Example: Steve Jobs by: Walter Isaacson

5. Memoirs
 Definition: a record of events written by a person having intimate knowledge
of them and based on personal observation.
 Can be considered a autobiography at times.
Example: Night by: Elie Wiesel

6. Personal Narrative
 Definition : A narrative is a story. It is a series of events told through
narration. This means that a personal narrative is a story about something
important in the life of the writer.
 Flashback: a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which
an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is
inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
 Flash forward: interruption of chronological sequence (as in a film or novel)
by interjection of events of future occurrence.
Example: Goodbye To All That by: Joan Didion

7. Organizational Structure of Personal
Narrative
 Introduction
 Topic sentence
 Body
 Connecting sentence
 Conclusion