NAME: EKPEAKHENA IDENIGHIAN DEBORAH

MATRIC NUMBER:. 19/202ENG/049

COURSE:. ENL 407 Short story

DEPARTMENT:. ENGLISH LANGUAGE

ASSIGNMENT:. DISCUSS THE NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES USED IN DREAMS AND STARS

A narrative technique provide deeper meaning for the reader to use imagination to visualize
situations. Common techniques relevant to style, or the language chosen to tell a story, include
metaphors, simile, personification, imagery, hyperbole, and alliteration.

In short, a narrative is a story. The narrative style of writing can be used in short stories, novels,
and poems, as well as in nonfiction and many other types of writing. Narrative techniques are literary
elements that writers use to give their writing depth and convoy meaning. These narrative techniques
can add artistic elements to the story as well.

The short story, "Dreams and stars" uses a first person narration to tell the story. In first person
narration, the narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view. The
narration of the story usually uses the pronoun "I" or "we" when referring to a group. The world the
writer has created is seen through the eyes of a single character, that is the narrator.

THE USE OF IMAGERY:. Imagery enables the reader to imagine where the writer want them to
be. It has to do with the five sense organs. It creates a vivid picture in the head of the reader, for them
to understand more and be in that world, an example in the book, " Then I felt something wet and
warm, like when..." In this part of the book, it was shown to us, not told.

THE USE OF FLASHBACKS: In a story, flashbacks are scenes that has happened before a story
begins or takes place. Flashbacks can be called interrupters, they interrupt the flow of a story to fit in or
chip in something. For example, " My first date was at eleven, with my father...".

PERSONIFICATION:. Personification is a type of figurative language that applies human attributes

to a non human or inanimate object to express a point. A vivid example in the book "When I finished my
assignment, the house was quiet... " Quiet is a attibute for a human entity.