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Elements of Narrative Paragraph

This document outlines the key elements of a narrative paragraph, including setting, characters, plot, and point of view. It defines each of these elements and provides examples. Setting establishes the time and location of the story. Characters include the main protagonist and antagonist. Plot involves an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. Point of view can be first, second, or third person. Narrative devices like anecdotes, flashbacks, time stretches, and dialogue are also discussed. The document concludes with tips for writing an effective narrative paragraph, such as using descriptive details and action verbs.

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Elements of Narrative Paragraph

This document outlines the key elements of a narrative paragraph, including setting, characters, plot, and point of view. It defines each of these elements and provides examples. Setting establishes the time and location of the story. Characters include the main protagonist and antagonist. Plot involves an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. Point of view can be first, second, or third person. Narrative devices like anecdotes, flashbacks, time stretches, and dialogue are also discussed. The document concludes with tips for writing an effective narrative paragraph, such as using descriptive details and action verbs.

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Elements of Narrative Paragraph

1. Setting. The time and location in which a story takes place. The details of
the setting are identified at the beginning of the story. The setting, along with
the characters, allows the writer to have the privilege to use colorful words in
his/her paragraph.

2. Characters are significant part of the story. A story features a main character,
protagonist, and a character that against the protagonist is the antagonist or
the villain..

3. Plot is planned, logical series of events having a beginni9ng, middle ,and


end. It is a series of events of the story itself.

There are five essential parts of plot :

a. Exposition. The part of the story where the characters and the setting are
revealed.

b. Rising Action. This is where the events in the story become complicated and
the conflict in the story is exposed.

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

d. Falling Action. The events and the complications begin to resolve


themselves. The reader knows what happens next and if the conflict is
resolved or not.

e. Denouement. The final resolution of the plot in the story.

4. Point of view is the perspective in narrating the story.

a. First person point of view. The story is told by the protagonist or one of the
characters who interacts closely with the protagonist or other characters using
pronouns I, me, we.

b. Second person point of view or First-person observer point of view. The


character tells in the first person a story or event he has seen using the
pronouns you, yours and your.

c. Third person point of view or Author-observer point of view. The narrator is


not part of the story but describes the events that happen. The writer tells
very objectively the events as they happened to another individual. The writer
uses the pronouns he, she, him and her.

Narrative Devices

Anecdote – It is a brief narrative that are written from the writer’s memory. It is
characterized as short, interesting, and amusing. It is generally of human interest. It
tells of simple day-to-day occurrence in human life that can entertain and give moral
lessons as well. The special features of the plot, climax, and denouement are not very
well played in the anecdote since it is short and simple.

Flashback – It is an event that happened in the past.

Time Stretch – It is a single event in the story that the author focuses writing
about.

Time Summary – It is characterized by jamming together multiple events and/or


shortening a relatively long period of time.

Flashforward – It is an event that has yet to happen in the story.

Dialogue – It is a word or series of words enclosed in a pair of quotation marks


which signal the characters’ spoken language.

Points to remember when writing a paragraph by definition.

1. Use action verbs and transitional expressions. A story is built around people
doing things.

2. Your paragraph/s is/are characterized by words that show action and words that
show sequence.

3. Descriptive details in a narrative paragraph are essential to a good story. Details


help readers to connect to the world the author envisions.

4. Choose the right words for their meanings and use specific expressions.

5. Be guided by the sample narrative below.

I took up the river road as hard as I could put. By and by I begin to


hear guns a good ways off. When I came in sight of the log store and the
woodpile where the steamboats lands I worked along under the trees and
brush till I got to a good place, and then I climb up into the forks of a
cottonwood that was out of reach and watched. There was a wood-rank four
foot high a little ways in front of the tree, and first I was going to hide that;
but may be it was luckier I8 didn’t. (Source: The Adventure of Huckleberry
Finn by Mark Twain; www.sparknotes.com/nofear/lit/huckleberry-finn.

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