Thursday, December 1, 2011

Literary Term Narrative

Narrative: something that is narrated: story, account. The art, technique, or process of narrating. adj. Consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story.

-Narrative is the structure that gives shape to the story. It is used in all type of literature.

-There are different types of narrative structures: open, closed and linear structure.

-Narrative is told from first person

-Tells a story using events in order

-Uses figurative language

-Has a beginning, middle and end



This is an interesting video, that explains what a narrative is, gives the definition and explains the different structures of a narrative. Then it even goes into a man named Vladmir Propp who studied narrative

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