1. Unit One: Descriptive and Narrative Prose

2. What is Descriptive Prose?
Introduces characters and setting
It creates suspense or sustains a mood
It gives a picture of something essential to a piece of literature
Awakens our senses
Explores the qualities of people, places, things, or events
It calls on us to respond physically and emotionally

3. Descriptive Prose Narrative Prose
Prose that describes characters or setting or both
Narrative Prose
Prose that tells a story
Includes setting
Includes plot
Includes character
Introduction
One or more complications
Climax
Conclusion

4. Narrator’s Point of View
The narrator is the story’s teller
The narrator’s angle of vision or perspective affects the story’s telling
First person
Omniscient
Limited omniscient
Objective point of view or shifting point of view
May be gendered

5. First Person Point of View
Use of I or me
“I saw” or “I heard”
Storyteller is one of the characters
main character or
Minor character
Storyteller is inside the story

6. Third Person Point of View
Use of he or she
Storyteller is an observer
Storyteller is outside the story
Free to introduce information to the reader where and when they choose

7. Types of Third Person Point of View
Omniscient Point of View, p. 105
Use of he or she
Storyteller is godlike observing all
Storyteller is above the events
Limited Omniscient
Inside the head of usually one character--“limited” to one

8. Shifting Point of View
p. 108
Point of view can shift from one character to another
As an interpreter, recognize this shift so you can make it clear to your audience.
Point of view can be from an objective third party

9. The Gender of Narration
p. 111
Does the narrator’s voice have gender qualities? How can make this clear to an audience?
Do male and female narrators speak differently? How can I distinguish this for an audience?

10. Narrative Prose Plot, p. 103 Setting, p. 103 Motivation
What does your character want?
What makes your character do what he/she does?
Character Placement, p. 115
Diagram where each character looks whenever he/she speaks