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ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1123
PAPER 1
SECTION 2: COMPOSITION WRITING
TOTAL MARKS:30 ----WORDS: 350-500
Prepared by: Faiza Rehman
2. Narrative Writing
• Narrative writing is a writing that has a story, characters, conflict, and
other essential parts of a story. Narrative writing is often similar to a
story. And this differs greatly compared to other forms of writing, like
in textbooks and certain nonfiction books.
• Narratives have five elements: plot, setting, character, conflict, and
theme.
• Writers use narrator style, chronological order, a point of view, and
other strategies to tell a story.
• Narrative can be written as a first person and as a story of the third
person.
4. Steps to write a story
Choose and understand the topic
Plan a plot with climax scene
Create the characters with details
Decide how to commence
Decide proper ending
5. Smart Tips
1.
• Stories should have an engaging opening, interesting middle to
sustain readers’ interest and a logical ending to bring a proper
resolution to the plot.,
2.
• Use similes, metaphors and effective descriptive words to create
verbal pictures in a narrative essay.
3.
• Keep your stories believable and realistic. Use flashback, dialogues
and description of setting to make your narrative composition
engaging for the reader.
6. Planning Methods
Brainstorming
• Collect ideas
randomly
• Then arrange in
chronological
order.
Outline
• Make a rough
draft or outline of
the plot.
• Then add details.
Bullet Points
• What should be
in paragraphs
1,2,3……
• Then add details
and descriptions
7. Methods to start the 1st paragraph
Describe a person, place or scene.
Use a flashback technique
Start with conversation of characters
8. Language in Narrative Essays
Common techniques relevant to style, or the language
chosen to tell a story, include metaphors, similes,
personification, imagery, hyperbole, and alliteration.
Common techniques relevant to plot, which is the
sequence of events that make up a narrative, include
backstory, flashback, flash-forward, and
foreshadowing.
11. Techniques of starting
A flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time
from the current point in the story. Flashbacks are often used to
recount events that happened before the story's primary sequence of
events to fill in crucial backstory.
A flashback in a book or story is when the current plot is interrupted so
that a scene which previously occurred can be shared with the reader.
...
Examples of Flashback: 1. In a story about a girl who is afraid of heights,
there is a flashback to a time when she fell off of the top of a
playground as a young child.
12. Adding descriptions to stories
• Avoid Huge Lumps of Description. ...
• Make Description an Active Part of the Story. ...
• Describe What Your Characters Would Notice. Or feel ...
• Words, Words, Words. ... adjectives
• Use All the Senses. ... Sensory details
• Fit the Description to the Type of Story. ...tragic or funny
• Avoid Excessive Name-dropping. ...repetition
• Don't Let Description Hang You Up during a First Draft or detract
13. Closing or Ending
• The ending is the most important part of a dramatic narrative: The ending is the
part of a drama in which the conflict between the story's protagonist and whatever
antagonistic force is standing in the way of the protagonist achieving his primary
motivating goal comes to a head and is finally resolved.
To create a good ending for your narrative paragraph you should practice the
following steps.
• Reflect on What You Learned. If you are writing a personal narrative, your ending
should also include reflection, or your thoughts about the event. ...
• Analyze the Story's Significance. ...
• Use Emotions. ...
• Present the Moral.
14. Closing the circle: The ending reminds readers of the beginning by returning to an important place or
reintroducing a key character.
The tie-back: The ending connects to some odd or offbeat element earlier in the story.
The time frame: Create a tick-tock structure with time advancing relentlessly. To end the story, you decide
what should happen last.
The space frame: Rather than time, focus on place or geography. The hurricane reporter moves readers
from location to location, revealing the terrible damage from the storm. To end, you select the final
destination.
The payoff: This does not require a “happy ending,” but a satisfying one, a reward for a journey concluded,
a secret revealed, a mystery solved.
The epilogue: The story ends, but life goes on. How many times have you wondered, after the house lights
come back on, what happened next to the characters in a movie? Readers care about characters in stories.
epilogue helps satisfy their curiosity.
Problem and solution: This common structure suggests its own ending. Frame the problem at the top and
then offer readers possible solutions and resolutions.
The apt quote: Often overused, this technique remains a sturdy tool for ending stories. Some characters
just speak in endings, capturing in their own words a neat summary or distillation of what has come before.
most cases, you can write it better than the source can say it. But not always.
Look to the future: Most stories are about things that have already happened. But what do people say will
happen next? What is the likely consequence of this decision or those events?
15. Prompt
• One day without an access to the
Internet.1.
• The experience that taught me how
appearance can be deceiving.2.
