A narrative is a story. Thus, narrative writing is writing that tell a story. You are using narrativ when you tell a friend about something interesting that happened to you at work or in school, when yo tell someone a joke, or when you tell to explain to atraffic policeman why you are going fifty miles an hour in a twenty mile-an-hour zone. You have already written narrative if you write letters back home to your relatives and friends, or if you write about the events of the day in the frivacy of a diary or jurnal.
Narrative in English may be written in the first person, using I in the singular and we in the plural, they may also be written in the third person, using he or she in the singular and they in the plural. Most narrative writing has the following characteristics:
1. It tells the story of an event or events.
2. The events are usually arranged in chronological order-that is, in the order in which they occurred in time.
3. The narrator has a pupose in mind in telling the story. There is some point the narratoe wishes to make, or some impression he or she wishes to convey to the reader. therefore, the details of the narrative are carefully selected for that purpose.
Stories told in chronological order, developed through the careful selection of details in order to present an author's purpose: these are the important aspects of narrative writing that you will be concentratin on in the pages that follow. Begin by reading the model essay and answering the question that follow it.
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