Narrative Conventions

What is a narrative?

• It is a spoken or written account that focuses on telling a story.

• It is a form of poetry

• It is a biography

• It is only a written story

Tags

CCSS.RI.7.10

CCSS.RI.8.10

CCSS.RL.6.10

CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

Which best describes the plot?

• The people in the story
• The end of the story
• The events that happen in the story
• A type of conflict

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which of the following means the time and the place in which the events of the story happen?

• Setting 
• Dialogue
• Plot
• Characterisation

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A protagonist is

• The character with the most dialogue
• A genre of fiction
• The hero/main character of the story
• The author of the story

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

What point of view is this: 'I've been fishing with my father since I was about six years old.'

• First Person
• Third Person
• Second Person

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What point of view is this: 'The phone rings. You pick it up. You answer it.'

• first person

• second person

• third person

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which point of view is this: 'Colin Morton couldn't do anything right. He drank his juice from a different spot on his glass each day.'

• First person

• Second person

• Third Person

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

The theme or message in the story is

• what the author is trying to convey — in other words, the central idea of the story.

• The way the story is constructed
• The climax of the story
• A problem in the story

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CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

As well as time and place, what is the other aspect of setting?

• Technical
• Feeling
• Appearance
• Atmosphere

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which of these occurs first in the plot of a narrative?

• Climax
• Rising action
• Resolution
• Falling action

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.5.5