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1.A narrative answers the question _______________.
Who did it?
What happened?
What went wrong?
How do you do this?


2.Another word for narrative is ____________.
poem
story
play
title


3.The most important thing to do when you start a narrative is to _____________.
name all the characters
say when the action took place
make the reader want to read on
explain where the action took place


4.One way to keep events in order when you write a narrative is to ____________.
write about a real-life event
use consistent verb tenses
look in a family scrapbook for story ideas
choose an interesting place to write about


5.When choosing details for your story, you should _______________.
use as few details as possible
include as many details as you can
choose only the most important details
write the details in the order in which you think of them


6.Narratives are often organized by ________________.
time order
place order
character order
alphabetical order


7.The words spoken by the characters in a story are called ___________.
action
setting
dialogue
chronological order


8.To show which words a character speaks, put quotation marks ____________.
at the end of the character’s exact words
before and after the character’s exact words
at the beginning of the character’s exact words
at the beginning and the end of the entire paragraph


9.The best way to show that a different character is speaking is to ______________.
use an identifying phrase such as he said
use quotation marks around a speaker’s exact words
write, "Now a different character is talking"
start a new paragraph whenever a different character speaks


10.The story of a person’s life, written by someone else, is a(n) _______________.
primary source
autobiography
biography
dialogue

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