NARRATIVE
Personal and story writing
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.
ORDER
Beginning:
Introduce
characters, place
Middle:
Events
happen (Rising Action)
Use details
Keep the events progressing
forward (No two pages on how the dude made a
sandwich).
End:
Result
(Falling Action)
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.
DIALOGUE
 Indent
for each new speaker.
 Use quotation marks.
 Use commas inside the quotation
marks, then who said the words.
“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.
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).
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.”
NARRATIVE VOCABULARY
Cause
and effect: Do
something, something
happens
Chronological
order:
Events go in order of TIME
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
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Idiom:
Piece of cake
Personification: The wind was
screaming…
Oxymoron: Jumbo shrimp
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
Simile:
She was like a tiger on the
court.
Metaphor: She was a tiger…
Hyperbole: I am so hungry I could
eat a horse. I am so tired I could die.
Alliteration: Billy Bob bought a
bright blue BMW.
POINT OF VIEW
First Person: Character is the
narrator. Use “I” and “we”
Second Person: When the narrator
puts the reader in place of the main
character. Uses “you”
Third Person Limited: Only see the
perspective of one character.
POINT OF VIEW
Third Person Omniscient:
The narrator knows the thoughts of
all characters. You see the story from
many perspectives.
BALLAD
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Write a Ballad about 7th grade survival in the
style of “The Cremation of Sam McGee.”
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bal·lad
/ˈbaləd/
Noun
A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas.
A slow sentimental or romantic song
THE CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE
The poem is about a freezing-cold winter trip in
the Yukon, back in the days of the Klondike Gold
Rush. The poem’s speaker tells us a story about
his friend, Sam McGee, who freezes to death on
the trail.
 Sam hates the cold and doesn’t want to be buried
in the frozen ground. So, as his dying wish, he
asks our speaker to cremate him (which is a
fancy way of saying "burn his corpse"). The
speaker promises he will, but it’s tough to find a
way to do it in the dead of winter. He ends up
having a lousy trip, carrying Sam’s frozen corpse
until he finds a spot to burn Sam’s body.
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CREMATION OF SAM MCGEE CONTINUED
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He starts to burn Sam, but is pretty grossed out
by the whole thing. Then, when he goes to see if
Sam is "cooked," he finds his friend alive and well
and cozy! Apparently Sam just needed to defrost
a little, and the raging fire did the trick.
SURVIVAL NARRATIVE DICE STORY
LOST
CHARACTER
YOU HAVE NO____
In a forest
Doctor
Water
At sea
Kid
Food
In a mall
Police Officer
Boat
In a desert
Teacher
Way to make a fire
In Alaska
U.S. Marine
Flares
FREE CHOICE
FREE CHOICE
FREE CHOICE
SURVIVAL IN THE WILDERNESS NARRATIVE
RUBRIC
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RUBRIC
Use all three sentences: Bold an example of each.
Simple
Compound
Complex
Adjectives Underline all the adjectives.
Sensory Language – Touch, hear, see, taste, smell.
Cause & Effect event
Figurative Language: Highlight two on your final copy.
Fill in pre-write story MAP
1 ½ pages type- FINAL COPY
14” font- double spaced
Chronological Order
Conversations