2. NARRATIVE WRITING
A Narrative is a STORY.
Narrative ~ A fictional story
you can make up all of the
events.
Personal Narrative~ A TRUE
story about an event that
happened in your life.
4. NARRATIVE WRITING
Tell a fictional story.
Write the events in order.
Remember your plot diagrams.
You can do flashbacks.
Paragraphs can be any size. INDENT!
Still proper grammar, spelling and
capitalization.
5. DIALOGUE
Indent for each new speaker.
Use quotation marks.
Use commas inside the quotation
marks, then who said the words.
6. “Wow,” Jim said as he walked down
the eerie hallway to his destination. “I
can’t believe it!”
“Hey, wait up!” Joe yelled, as he saw
his friends shadow disappear around the
corner. Blah, blah, blah, blah Blah, blah
Blah, blah Blah, Blah,blah Blah, blah
Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah, blah Blah.
“Relax bro,” Jim retorted.
7. BACK AND FORTH
CONVERSATION
“Look at that,” Jim said.
“I know,” whispered Joe.
“How do you know?”
“I just do.”
“Yeah, right.”
(You can stop using their names each
time when they talk back and forth
right away).
8. CONTINUED TALKING
No Capital letter if you continue
after you write: I said or Joe said
“Sir,” I said to the officer, “the kid
just broke his arm.”
10. NARRATIVE VOCABULARY
Flashback: Go back in time to explain
an event or feeling
Foreshadowing: Hints to future
events
Adjectives: Describe nouns
Sensory language: See, hear, feel,
taste, smell
11. POINT OF VIEW
Third Person Omniscient:
The narrator knows the thoughts of all
characters. You see the story from
many perspectives.