Understanding Narrative

Narrative Literature:

Narrative Poetry

- epic

- metrical romance
- ballad

- dramatic narrative

- drama

Narrative Prose

- novel

- short story

- newspaper

- report

- allegory

- travels books

- folk legend

- diaries

- biography

-history

Common Characteristics of Narratives:

1. A sense of movement.
2.  A sense of reality and truth.
3.  A careful and significant selection and ordering of details.
4.  a well - defined point of view.

Different kinds of Point of View:

• first person - a character tells his/her own story.
• first person observer - a character tells in the first person ( I ) a story he has observed.
• Author - observer ( third person ) -  the author relates what happens in an object manner.
• omniscient author -  the author tells story with his/her own comments and with freedom to go into the mind of character.
• A combination of four.