Exam 24: Discovering Causes and Effects

Good writers mix telling and showing, choosing which moments to summarize and which to elaborate upon.

Stories that stick with us usually have a point.

Specific words and sensory details are important for scene building.

Describing in detail is especially critical near the climax because that is where you want the reader to slow down and pay attention.

In a narrative, your purpose may be to inform, persuade, or entertain your reader.

An organized narrative paragraph does not require a topic sentence or concluding sentence.

Arranging ideas in chronological (time) order is not helpful in writing a narrative paragraph.

When writing narratives, you should bring them to life by telling and ______________ action.

Which of the following skills will not help you create more interesting personal narratives?

The setting of a story is irrelevant; only the action of the story is important.

A person coping with the world around him or her (for example, driving in a blizzard) is an example of __________.

People tell stories only to entertain others; narratives are not used to inform or persuade. FALSE

Narratives do not benefit from space and time transitions.

Films, most TV programs, novels, and short stories are forms of narrative, or storytelling.

Suspense is a state of uncertainty that makes readers wonder what will happen next.

Finding the answer to who, what, when, where, why, how, and what was the result can be especially useful in writing a narrative.

____________ uses quotation marks and reproduces what a person has said word for word.

For a story to interest most people, it must not have conflict.

The high point of action in a story is called an anticlimax.

How a story affected other people at the time or how it affects them now is an example of a(n) __________ point.