Chapter 3 - Writing Life Stories

Question 1

A tell of a story, a natural means of communication such as when we meet new people and we reveal our background & values.

Answer 1

Narrate

Question 2

It’s storytelling, primary in rhetorical form, a means of persuading an audience. The main point is to express as a theme.

Answer 2

Narration

Question 3

The story & it must have a point.

Answer 3

Narrative

Question 4

Why we tell stories?

Answer 4

To entertain each other even as we voice our deepest concerns about the capricious nature of life.

Question 5

Opposing forces, it is resolved at the end of the story & without it there is no story. Some obstacles must overcome something in the narrative.

Answer 5

Conflict

Question 6

Emotional or intellectual struggles.

Answer 6

Internal Conflict

Question 7

Struggles between forces outside the narrator’s physical being, such as nature & social pressure.

Answer 7

External Conflict

Question 8

Presented in order in which they occurred.

Answer 8

Plot

Question 9

Context to understand the story, preparing for events we are about to experience.

Answer 9

Exposition

Question 10

Build suspense & must have a cause-effect link.

Answer 10

Rising action

Question 11

The final & most important event of the rising action, the central external conflict is settled.

Answer 11

Climax

Question 12

Cooling down after the heat of the conflict.

Answer 12

Falling action

Question 13

(Denouement) What the world will be in the future now that the external conflict has been solved.

Answer 13

Resolution

Question 14

Position from which the narrator tells the story & lets the reader know about the story.

Answer 14

Point of view

Question 15

Relate what all the characters in the story are doing & thinking.

Answer 15

Omniscient Point of View

Question 16

Relates only what a limited number of characteristics are doing & thinking.

Answer 16

Limited Omniscient Point of View

Question 17

Limited omniscience & uses first-person pronouns.

Answer 17

First-Person Point of View

Question 18

Reports only what the characters say and do but not what they are thinking.

Answer 18

Objective Point of View

Question 19

Contribute to the action, it should have traits that distinguish them from others.

Answer 19

Character

Question 20

More than one personality trait throughout the story like a protagonist.

Answer 20

Round characters

Question 21

Not as complicated or well-developed as the antagonist.

Answer 21

Flat characters

Question 22

Verbal exchange, allows us to experience the emotions and personalities of the characters & always begins a new paragraph each time there is a new speaker.

Answer 22

Dialogue

Question 22

Takes place in a certain location and at a certain time. It establishes the mood of a work and provides symbolic reinforcement of the theme.

Answer 22

Setting

Question 23

Stories that appeal to us on an emotionally because we connect with it on a personal and psychological level.

Answer 23

Theme

Question 24

Writing for others anticipates their needs. Think of the reader and someone who loves a good story.

Answer 24

Envisioning your Reader

Question 25

It should relate to one particular event and focus on an external experience. Avoid writing about an event too painful nor about the most important thing to us.

Answer 25

Choosing your Topic

Question 26

Posses quality of coherence and should be a story that dramatizes an experience that changed us.

Answer 26

Posing your Focus Question

Question 27

Stated as a familiar saying or cliche, appropriate to the story, and explains the major details of the story.

Answer 27

Developing the Theme.

Question 28

Arranged in chronological order.

Answer 28

Organizing

Question 29

Describe an episode that has happened previously.

Answer 29

Flashback

Question 30

Exposition that conveys the basic situation that the reader needs to understand before the story begins to unfold.

Answer 30

Introduction

Question 31

Speed at which you move your reader through events. Rapid but at some point focus more on details and slow down.

Answer 31

Pacing

Question 32

Let your reader know using certain words and phrases the order of events.

Answer 32

Time Signals

Question 33

Start a new one when there is a shift in scene, point of view, period or speaker in a dialogue.

Answer 33

Paragraphing

Question 34

Writing entails the choice of vivid & specific words instead of vague or general ones.

Answer 34

Active Verbs

Question 35

When you show readers rather than tell them you create vivid images.

Answer 35

Showing Versus Telling

Question 36

Communicate explicitly or implicitly what the world will be like now that this event has happened. This presents an opportunity to reiterate the images that have arisen during the narrative.

Answer 36

Conclusion

Question 37

Reread our story and look for a particular apt phrase.

Answer 37

Inventing a Title

Question 38

Make changes in content & structure, and look at the work as a whole.

Answer 38

Revising

Question 39

Make finer corrections such as word choice, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and mechanics errors.

Answer 39

Editing

Question 40

Recount a particular experience with reading or writing.

Answer 40

Literacy Narrative

Question 41

Narrative about a time when we misunderstood our rhetorical situation because we may have made a mistake in the way we communicated an idea.

Answer 41

Rhetorical Awareness Narrative

Question 42

Reflect on our experience writing one of our life stories and then use them to our advantage in future projects.

Answer 42

Reflective Essay