Narratives and story telling

Question 1

Abstract:

Answer 1

What is the story about?

Question 1

Orientation:

Answer 1

Sets out time, place and characters for the reader/listener

Question 2

Complication:

Answer 2

Events which are unusual, funny, scary, that make the story a story

Question 3

Evaluation:

Answer 3

Comments on the events by rhetorical underlining with exclamations, repetition, heavy use of adjectives or adverbs, by using gesture, special intonation or pitch range

Question 4

Resolution:

Answer 4

How the events worked out

Question 5

Coda:

Answer 5

Rounding off the story and bridging back to the present

Question 6

Intensifiers:

Answer 6

Is a word that strengthens, weakens another word (usually the word immediately to it’s right)
Intensifiers are adverbs
The sole purpose of an intensifier is to tell us about the intensity of another word e.g. very, extremely, incredibly

Question 7

Internal evaluation:

Answer 7

Evaluative comments are made within the same time frame as the main narrative

Question 8

External evaluation:

Answer 8

Evaluative commentary provided by ‘Standing back’ from the main narrative