it tells a story about a specific event or experience includes all the key events of a story uses...
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It tells a story about a specific event or experience
Includes all the key events of a story Uses descriptive and sensory
information Uses a single point of view
Provides an organizing focus/idea Significant event Significant experience Significant relationship
Get the reader engaged Use sensory details
Engage the five senses: taste, smell, sight, sound, touch
Scenery, season, scents, dialogue, etc Use figurative language
Similes, metaphors, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, etc.
If you’re telling a story it should be in chronological order AKA: Time Order Put the events in the order in which they
occurred
Every detail used refers back to the main focus of the paper
Stay on topic!
If it starts in past tense, it should end in past tense You decide the tense…BUT…then you have
to stick with it!
Helps the reader follow the sequence of action
Possible examples: After a short time
Afterwards As long as As soon as
At last At length At that time At the same time
Before Earlier Of late Immediately
In the meantime
In the past Lately Later
Meanwhile Now Presently Shortly
Since Soon Temporarily Then
Thereupon Until When While
What happens just after the story ends? Does Billy realize the danger he faces? If he does, is it too late, or does he escape? Write a narrative that describe Billy’s and the landlady’s fate.
1. Make a list of three possible ways the story could have ended.
2. For each ending, find at least 3 ways this could have been accomplished
3. Decide which ending you would like to write about