Things That Make for REALLY SHITTY Stories:
- Tone: poor intro (no hook),
- Audience consideration: appropriate diction (word choice),
- No Thesis: no point or, lacks interest (*)
- Lack of details / vagueness / overly general
- Bad ending, no conclusion
- addressing gravity (something serious or tragic):
- how it is introduced, the timing
- using comedy: bad target of humor (identity, faith), timing
Narrative Device: any textual tool used to tell a story:
- Dialogue: characters talking, Monologue
- Narrative voice:
- (Tone)
- Imagery / Detail : setting/scene, characters, feelings (interiority),
- Temporal markers
Narration: is story-telling: illustrating (relaying) a sequence of events (things that happened).
. Time or temporality or chronology
. unilinear
. related words: narrative, narrator, to narrate
Purpose: to illustrate or make a point. To teach a lesson or moral.
- Other reasons: to entertain/to please, to persuade, to explain
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