NARRATION

Paragraph Development 1
WHAT IS NARRATION?
•Narration tells a story. (STORYTELLING)
•It relates an incident or a series of
events that leads to a conclusion or
ending.
•It tells the readers when, where, and
what happened.
WHAT IS NARRATION?
•Sequence of events, not necessarily
arranged in chronological order, and
usually told by a narrator.
•Creating a world based on the writer’s
imagination.
Learn about it!
A narrative paragraph contains
action verbs and transition words
that indicate time or sequence.
Example
: Last night, I was walking on my way home when it
suddenly rained. I forgot to bring my umbrella, so I ran to
avoid getting completely soaked in the rain. Not seeing
where I was going, I fell into a paddle of water. Then a guy
helped me stand up. When I looked up, I recognized him.
Momentarily, I forgot that I was soaking wet and that I was
very cold. He offered to walk me home, and I just nodded.
The next day, he and I saw each other at school. At last, we
talked like old friends.
 ELEMENTS OF
NARRATIVE WRITING
Vivid description of
details. Writers’
SHOW Rule of
Thumb

RATHER THAN
TELL.
Consistent Point of View
(POV)
First person POV:
Singular: I, ME, MY, MINE, MYSELF
Plural: WE, US, OUR, OURSELVES
Second person POV:
Belongs to the person being addressed.
YOU, YOUR, YOURS, YOURSELF
Consistent Point of View
(POV)
Third person POV
Used to convey the narrator as an omniscient and
dispassionate observer.
Narrator is all-knowing; enables the reader to see not
only the dialogue, but also the innermost thoughts and desire.
HE, HIM, HIS, HIMSELF, SHE, HER, HERS,
HERSELF, IT, ITS, ITSELF, THEY , THEM, THEIR,
THEIRS, THEMSELVES
Consistent Verb Tense
Why? To tell readers that the story:
had already happened;
has been happening for some time now;
happens on a regular basis;
is currently happening; and
Will do so indefinitely, or will happen sometime in
the future
Well-defined Point or
Significance
Identify your THEME and stick on it!

unifying thought
or idea born out
of all the other
elements of the
story.
Use Narrative Devices
Narrative Devices – technique writers utilizes to add
flavor and enrich the meaning of their stories.
Anecdote Flashback
– brief narratives – reliving an event
that are written that happened in
from the writer’s the past
memory.
Use Narrative Devices
Narrative Devices – technique writers utilizes to add
flavor and enrich the meaning of their stories.
Time Stretch Time Summary
– a single event is
– a single event in prolonged. It is
the story that the characterized by jamming
author focuses together multiple events
writing about. and/or shortening a
relatively long period of
time.
Use Narrative Devices
Narrative Devices – technique writers utilizes to add
flavor and enrich the meaning of their stories.
Flash-forward Dialogue
– an event that – a word or a series of
has yet to happen words enclosed in a pair
of quotation marks,
in the story.
which signal the
characters’ spoken
language.