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A narrative essay tells a story through writing. It has a standard structure of introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. The introduction captures the reader's attention with an interesting fact. Body paragraphs express the story using literary devices and discuss how it fits the theme. The conclusion summarizes, reflects, and provides closure. Key features of a narrative essay include characters, exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution. These features help tell the story in an engaging way.

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Writing 1

A narrative essay tells a story through writing. It has a standard structure of introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion. The introduction captures the reader's attention with an interesting fact. Body paragraphs express the story using literary devices and discuss how it fits the theme. The conclusion summarizes, reflects, and provides closure. Key features of a narrative essay include characters, exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, and resolution. These features help tell the story in an engaging way.

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WRITING 1

Narrative Essay
What is narrative essay?
• Narrative is another word for story.

• A narrative tells the audience or readers about something


through writing or speaking.

• Writing a narrative essay will include creative adventures. It is


a descriptive essay where it allows you to write an essay using
your creative mind.
Structure of a narrative essay
Every essay follows the standard structure. Introduction, body paragraphs and
conclusion.
• In the introduction, you begin the essay with capturing the readers attention using
captivating words and an interesting fact about your story.
• Body paragraphs, the part where you express the story using literary devices and
discussing how it fits into the theme of the essay. Be mindful when transitioning
from one idea to another, so you do not shock or confuse the readers with the
story.
• Conclusion, you end the story with a summarization, reflection and closure. With
summarization, you remind the readers which part of the story have the strongest
impact or which one was the most affected by a shift in perspective.
Cont…
• The author should highlight or note the main events or important thoughts that
happened throughout the narrative essay.
• When writing a reflection, the author should describe changes in action that has
happened in the story. This is used as a guide for the readers to the main theme,
idea or lesson of the story.
• The end goal of the essay is the most important consideration included in a
reflection. Reflection should offer a consideration of the main details of the essay,
with a uniting theme showing their relevance and the purpose of the story.
• Closure, it ties together the central theme of the overall content of the essay.
Features of Narrative Essays
There are important features that must be included in your essay:
• Characters
• Exposition
• Rising action
• Conflict
• Climax
• Falling action
• Resolution
Characters
• The people in your story.
• It consists of protagonist, antagonists and side characters.

Exposition
• “Hook” your readers attention by explaining the setting of your story and use lots of
descriptions.
• When introducing your characters, include sensory details.
• You can explain any kind of backstory (a story that happened before the story began.)
Rising Action
• Explain how the main character will overcome a problem.
• Give full details of the different kind of trials or obstacles that the protagonist will
face.
• Use figurative language in this section.

Conflict
• You can introduce another one of your character, or the antagonist.
• During this section, drama and conflict will rise and the story will start getting
interesting, fill this section with details of the conflict.
• Use conflicts that are relatable to the readers.
Climax
• In this part, the major issue that your character is going through will start to find
small clues to the solution.
• Protagonist will also get help or assistance in solving the issue.
• You can use interesting facts and details to reveal in this section to keep the
readers engaged.

Falling action
• Things in this section of the story should happen in chronological order (if
someone got hurt, they will get better after seeing a doctor, then..)
• No action or drama or twist is to happen in this part of the story, everything will
remain calm.
Resolution
• Clarify the groups understanding of the main theme (idea)
• Resolve or try to resolve all conflicts between the antagonist and protagonist.
• Readers must understand what has happened to the characters of the story.
Rules in using features to write narrative
essays.
• Use emotional language but do not over exaggerate on the story. Use real
emotions to help the audience relate to the topic of your story. Exaggerated
emotions will disengage audience and will make your story look insincere.
• Use sensory details. Sight, sounds, smells, tastes and how things feel are essential
in a story and they bring the readers into the moment of the story.

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