Narrative Story Point of View: Writing a Super Bowl Story

Imagine it’s your job to tell the story of what happened in the Super Bowl football game. Naturally, the more you know about the game of football, and the more you know about the players, the better your story will be. Also, you’re going to want to choose the right...

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Narrator Point of View and Mind Reading in Narratives

Mind reading is the key to understanding the types of narrators and points of view in narratives. Narrative story is the one way a person can enter the mind of another person. That’s one reason we read stories. I use the term “mind reading” to explain to students how...

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The Two Types of Narrators or Speakers in Writing

As a rule, I use the term narrator for narratives, and the term speaker for most other types of writing, especially academic writing. Although the narrator is always the speaker in a narrative, the speaker is probably not narrating (i.e., telling what happened) in...

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The Five Types or Levels of Narrative and Story

What’s a narrative? What’s a story? Aren’t they the same thing? These are the questions that will be answered here. We will examine and compare five types of narrative and discover how they relate to story. We will look at narrative stories, personal narrative essays,...

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