Narrative Features

The time and place where a narrative occurs

• Resolution

• Setting

• Characterization

The methods a writer uses to develop characters; for example, through descriptions, actions, and dialogue

• Characterization

• Conflict

• Point of view

conversation between characters

• Sensory detail

• Descriptive language

• Dialogue

point of view in which the narrator is a character in the story telling what he or she knows

• Second person

• First person

• Third person

the perspective from which a story is told (who is telling the story)

• Dialogue

• Narrative

• Point of view

a piece of writing that describes an incident and includes a personal response to and reflection on the incident

• Personal narrative

• Personal experiences

• First person

The person telling the story

• Narrator

• Personal narrative

• First person point of view

The problem that the character will have to face- struggle or opposition. This is where the action takes place.

• End

• Conflict

• Beginning

the outcome of the conflict of a story; when loose ends are wrapped up

• Resolution

• Falling action

• Conflict

point of view in which the narrator is someone outside the story

• First person

• Second person

• Third person