Narrative Terms Grade 9

General message about life

Internal Conflict

Character labelled by society

Learning about characters through what the say and do

the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity

The onset of the conflict

An interruption in the story to a previous time

Tying up loose ends

Well developed characters

central character that creates the conflict

Narrator is an active participant in the story

Narrator makes the reader an active participant in the story

Point at which we are often introduced to setting and character

Narrator is all-knowing

Contributes significantly to creating the mood and atmosphere

events when the protagonist tries to overcome the conflict

Where and when the story takes place