Narrative

Question 1

narrative

Answer 1

writing or speech that presents a series of events, characters and places in a coherent form

Question 2

narrator

Answer 2

a person responsible for writing or speaking a narrative

Question 3

narratee

Answer 3

the person to whom a narrative is told

Question 4

time frame

Answer 4

the positioning of a narrative in the past, present or future

Question 5

story

Answer 5

the building blocks of a narrative in terms of events, characters, time and place

Question 6

narrative discourse

Answer 6

the shaping of the story through choices in language and structure

Question 7

central events

Answer 7

main events that are crucial to the overall story

Question 8

additional events

Answer 8

secondary events that are not necessarily crucial to the overall story but through being included may have been highlighted as imported

Question 9

knowledge frame

Answer 9

a mental store of knowledge about the world gained through experience

Question 10

gap-filling

Answer 10

the act of adding a rich sense of meaning to individual words and phrases based on our own knowledge and the context in which they appear

Question 11

tellability

Answer 11

the features of a story that make it worth telling to an audience

high tellability: the characteristic of a narrative that presents interesting material in an engaging way

low tellability: the characteristic of a narrative that presents uninteresting material in an uninspiring way