Narrative plot structure power point[1]
- 2. What is Narrative Text? • Narrative refers to a story —an account of events or experiences
- 3. Parts of a Narrative Story • Character—a person in the story we learn about through their words, thoughts and actions • Setting—the place where the story is set • Problem or Conflict—the struggle in the story (man vs man, man vs nature, man vs self) • Events—the things that take place in the story that are important and lead to the climax and the resolution (also known as Rising Action and Falling Action) • Climax—the most intense part of the story, physically or emotionally • Resolution—the conclusion, tying up all the loose ends, telling how it all ended up
- 4. Beginning, Middle and End • Every story can be broken up into three parts: the beginning, the middle and the end. Beginning Middle End Characters Setting Problem or Conflict Events in the Rising Action Climax Event(s) in the Falling Action Resolution or Conclusion
- 5. Plotting the Story on the Plot Pyramid • Once you can determine the beginning, middle and end of the story as well as the characters, problem, climax and solution, you are ready to plot the story on a pyramid like the one below:
- 6. Middle/ Climax Most intense part Beginning/ Exposition Characters Setting Problem Ending/ Resolution Was the problem solved? If yes, how? Rising Action Events Falling Action Events
- 7. The Princess and the Pea Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but nowhere could he get what he wanted. There were princesses enough, but it was difficult to find out whether they were real ones. There was always something about them that was not as it should be. So he came home again and was sad, for he would have liked very much to have a real princess.
- 10. On this the princess had to lie all night. In the morning she was asked how she had slept. "Oh, very badly!" said she. "I have scarcely closed my eyes all night. Heaven only knows what was in the bed, but I was lying on something hard, so that I am black and blue all over my body. It's horrible!"
- 11. Now they knew that she was a real princess because she had felt the pea right through the twenty mattresses and the twenty eider-down beds. Nobody but a real princess could be as sensitive as that. So the prince took her for his wife, for now he knew that he had a real princess; and the pea was put in the museum, where it may still be seen, if no one has stolen it.
- 12. Beginning- Exposition A prince in a kingdom who can’t find a real princess to become his wife Rising Action Prince searched for a princess, but couldn’t find one A “princess” knocked on the door in a storm The Queen invited the princess to sleep on 20 mattresses with a pea under the bottom one Climax-Middle Princess couldn’t sleep because of the pea-they knew she was a real princess Falling Action The prince and princess marry End-Resolution The princess is a real princess-She and the prince marry and live happily ever after