LESSON 4.

NARRATIVE
 NARRATIVE

THERE ARE AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF STORIES TO

TELL AN INFINITE NUMBER OF WAYS TO TELL THEM.
UNDERSTANDING THE MANY SORTS OF NARRATIVES
MAY HELP YOU TO TELL YOUR STORY IN THE MOST
EFFICIENT WAY POSSIBLE, WHEATHER YOU’RE
WRITING A DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY, A SHORT STORY OR
NOVEL.
NARRATIVE
 NARRATIVE IS A METHOD OF PRESENTING
RELATED EVENTS TO TELL A COMPAILING
STORY.
 NARRATIVE IN SIMPLIEST FORM MEANS
“STORY”
 NARRATIVE MAY INCORPORATE ARTICULATE
LANGUAGE, SPOKEN OR WRITTEN;
PICTURES, STILL OR MOVING; GESTURES
AND THE ORDERED ARRANGEMENT OF ALL
INGREDIENTS: IT IS IN MYTH LEGEND,
FABLES, SHORT STORY, EPIC, HISTORY,
TREGEDY.
 NARRATIVE IS ALSO A CONCEPT THAT IS
USED IN VARIOUS WAYS.
 NARRATIVE IS A WAY OF PRESENTING
RELATED EVENTS TO TELL A GOOD STORY.
MASTER CLASS (2021) PRESENTED 4 TYPES
OF NARRATIVE WRITING
4 TYPES OF NARRATIVE
WRTING
LINEAR NARRATIVE
NON-LINEAR NARRATIVE
QUEST NARRATIVE
VIEWPOINT NARRATIVE
LINEAR NARRATIVE
Presents the
story events in
the order they
happened.
NON-LINEAR NARRATIVE
 Presents the story’s
events out of order,
employing flashbacks
and other literary
devices to shift the
chronology of a story.
QUEST NARRATIVE
 Is a story in which the
protagonist works tirelessly
toward a goal. The pursuit of
this goal likely becomes their all
consuming passion, and they
must face seemingly
insurmountable obstacles along
the way.
VIEWPONT NARRATIVE
 Is designed to express the points
of view or subjective personal
experience of the main character
or other fictional characters in
the story.