Describing Characters, Settings, and Events

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

• Setting 

• Dialogue

• Plot

• Characterisation

Makes the reader smell, taste, feel, see, hear, and imagine what the writer is describing

• Symbolism

• Diction

• Pacing

• Imagery

Why is it important to use narrative writing techniques/ strategies?

• It is not important. They are a waste if time.

• They help to keep the reader engaged in your writing and are creative ways to describe important characters, settings, and events.

• They help to make the story flow from one idea to the next smoothly.

Characterization

• A contradiction or dilema.

• The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character.

• Sounds written into words.

• Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast.

Setting can include:

• Weather

• Character

• Speech

• Landscape

Imagery

• Uses sensory language to describe

• Copying and pasting pictures into stories

• Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities

• The rate at which a story moves

The problems, worries, and tensions between characters, situations, and the environment is known as the:

• setting

• conflicts

• dialogue

• resolution

Read the following excerpt from "House Taken Over" and describe the narrator's reaction after the back section of the house is taken over. "I went down to the kitchen, heated the kettle, and when I got back with the tray of mate, I told Irene: 'I had to shut the door to the passage. They've taken over the back part.'"

• He is noticeably angry

• He is surprisingly calm

• He is confused by the strange events

• He is distressed to lose half of their home.

Which of the following best describes the setting of "House Taken Over"?

• A dirty, creepy haunted house

• An old, spacious mansion

• A regular house in a middle-class neighborhood

• The streets of Buenos Aires

At the beginning of "House Taken Over," how do the narrator and his sister Irene spend most of their days? Choose 2 options.

• sleeping

• knitting

• shopping

• cleaning

• harvesting crops