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Effective Narration: Key Elements and Techniques for Compelling Narratives

This guide explores the fundamental elements of effective narration, drawing from Kathleen T. McWhorter's “Seeing the Pattern.” It covers how narratives convey a point, present conflicts, and create tension. Discover the process of building a story through chronological events, flashbacks, and foreshadowing. Learn about the power of dialogue in character development and tension building, and understand different points of view, from first-person immediacy to third-person objectivity. Use this knowledge to enhance your narrative essays and engage your audience.

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Effective Narration: Key Elements and Techniques for Compelling Narratives

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  1. Effective Narration Taken from Seeing the Pattern Kathleen T. McWhorter Thanks to B-T and Pomerantz

  2. Narratives Make a Point • Event or series of events portrayed • Writer’s thinking changes • About self • About world • Epiphany shown • Point (your thesis) • directly stated • implied

  3. Narratives Present a Conflict • Reveals a struggle, question, or problem • Works toward its resolution • Can be internal or external

  4. Narratives Create Tension • Tension suspense created as the story unfolds • how will the conflict be resolved? • Climax the point just before (or as) the conflict is resolved

  5. Freytag’s Plot Triangle

  6. Narratives Sequence Events • Chronologicalorder • Flashbackreturns to events that took place in the past • Flashforwardjumps ahead in time • Foreshadowinghints at events that will happen in the future

  7. Narratives Incorporate Dialogue • Reveals character • Builds tension • Emphasizes conflict

  8. Dialogue Should be Natural Stiff and Unrealistic • Eva said to her grandmother, “The stories you tell of your childhood in Mexico are very interesting. I wish I could go there with you.” • Eva told her grandmother, “I love the stories about Mexico when you were a kid. I wish I could go there with you.” More Natural

  9. Narratives Are Told from a Point of View • 1st I, my, me • Personal • Direct to Audience • Feelings and Commentary • 3rd  he, she, his, her, him her • Distance • Objective • Insights not available to protagonist

  10. page 100 Graphic Organizer for Narrative Essays

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