Narrative Structure Fiction

NARRATIVE STRUCTURE – FICTION

Title:______Genre______ORIENTATION COMPLICATION PROBLEMS/SOLUTIONS CLIMAX RESOLUTION THEMES (also called Exposition, (also called CONFLICT) (also called Cause and All the ideas and actions are How and why the problems What does the author want Introduction.) Something happens to the Effect) drawn together near the are solved. What the main the reader to think about at We learn about the main main character to get the The main character tries to end of the text. We come to character thinks and feels the end? What is the author character, the setting, a first plot going. resolve the issue or understand something about this. What happened trying to tell the reader about look at the story to come. problems facing him or her. important about the main to all the characters. our life in our world? character or the events.  Lord  Shrek meets  After  Shrek and  Appearances  Shrek reads Farquaad Donkey. storming the Princess can be the fairytale banishes the castle, Shrek Fiona get deceiving in the fairy tale  Shrek and and Fiona married! outhouse characters Donkey battle kiss. Fiona  Beauty is on the and they the dragon permanently  Shrek and inside  Happily living wind up in and save turns into an Donkey are alone in the Shrek’s Princess ogre, and friends!  Friendship swamp swamp. This Fiona. Shrek realizes makes him that he wants  They all live angry  Shrek falls in to be with happily ever love with somebody after?  In order to Princess (instead of restore his Fiona. always swamp back alone). to normal,  Princess Shrek must Fiona is also rescue an ogre? Princess Fiona and  Prince bring her Farquaad has back to Fiona Farquaad. kidnapped and tries to marry her  Shrek wants to be left alone