Narrative Composition

A short narrative that consists of created events and characters.

• Historical fiction

• Autobiography

• Fictional Short Story

• Parallel plot

Plots in which each main character has a separate but related story line that merges in the end.

• climax

• parallel plot

• exposition

• resolution

This is the turning point of the story and the point of highest interest.

• Climax

• Exposition

• Resolution

• Point of view

The opening of a story, when the characters and their conflicts are introduced.

• resolution

• exposition

• memoir

• climax

The narrator is a character INSIDE the story.

• 1st person

• 3rd limited

• 3rd omniscient

• parallel plot

The OUTSIDE narrator only knows the thoughts and feelings of one/two characters.

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

The OUTSIDE narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story.

• 1st person

• 3rd person omniscient

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

An account of the author's personal experiences focusing on a specific aspect of their life.

• autobiography

• memoir

• parallel plot

• biography

The part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict

• point of view

• plot

• resolution

• climax

What is point of view?

• A struggle or clash between two opposing characters, forces, or emotions.

• The vantage point from which a writer tells a story.

• The series of related events that make up a story, its underlying structure.

• One who tells, or narrates, a story.