Exam 2: Narratives: Analysis and Intervention

Question 1

Types of macrostructure (4).

Answer 1

1. Applebee’s 6 Basic Developmental Levels
2. Episodic Analysis
3. High Point Analysis/Story Art
4. Macroanalysis of Scripts

Question 2

Types of microstructure (4).

Answer 2

1. Cohesive devices
2. Tense markers
3. Vocabulary
4. Sentence complexity

Question 3

Define macrostructure.

Answer 3

Examines overall thematic organization in terms of causal and temporal relationships for fictional stories.

Question 4

Define microstructure.

Answer 4

Includes the smaller units within the narrative consisting of the underlying network of ideas put into sequences of sentences.

Question 5

List Applebee’s 6 Basic Developmental Levels.

Answer 5

1. Heaps (2 years)
2. Sequences (2-3 years)
3. Primitive Temporal Narratives (3-4 years)
4. Unfocused Temporal Narratives (4-4.5 years)
5. Focused Temporal or Causal Chains (5 years)
6. Narratives (5-7 years)

Question 6

How can you apply Applebee’s 6 Basic Developmental Levels to narrative intervention?

Answer 6

Answer here.

Question 7

These are expressed in stories as sets of hierarchically related story grammar components, usually referred to as episodes.

Answer 7

Schema

Question 8

What does a story consist of?

Answer 8

A setting and one or more episodes.

Question 9

What are the components of an episode?

Answer 9

1. Setting
2. Complication
3. Motivating event
4. Attempts
5. Consequence
6. Reaction

Question 10

What does a setting contribute to an episode?

Answer 10

Provides information about the main character, and about the time and place in which the story occurs.

Question 11

What does a complication contribute to an episode?

Answer 11

Events that initiates agent state or action.

Question 12

What does a motivating event contribute to an episode?

Answer 12

Feeling or cognition resulting from the complication and leading to an attempt.