AP Lang Narration and Description

Define Narration

Relates a sequence of events linked in time

Narrative time is not _

Real time

Another word for the point of a narrative is the _

Takeaway idea

The point of the narrative determines

the selection of events, the amount of detail given to each event, the arrangement of the events

Four common event orders:

Straight chronological order, final event first, summary first then details, flashback

Point of view is _

Your position relative to events

Verb tense indicates _

Narrator’s relation in time to events

Description draws on perceptions of the _

Five senses (tactile, gustatory, olfactory, auditory, visual)

Objective description strives for _

Precision and objectivity

Objective description conveys the subject _

impersonally without emotion

Objective description is often used in , , and

Scientific writing, news report, encyclopedias

Subjective description draws on _

Emotion

Subjective description gives an impression of the subject filtered through _

Firsthand experience

In subjective description, the writer _ in the subject

Invests feeling

In subjective description, feelings determine _ and _

Which feelings to describe, how to describe them

A dominant impression is a _ about the subject

Central idea or theme

What does a dominant impression serve as?

Guides writers selection of detail and how the reader understands the subject

Creating a dominant impression involves a consistent POV

Position from which a writer approaches a subject

Two types of relation in point of view are _ and _

physical relations, psychological relations

Point of view is conveyed partly by _

Pronouns, verb tense

Once point of view is established, readers come to , and a sudden shift can

Depend on it, disorient them

Stages leading to a result → Result is:

new knowledge OR notable outcome

First-person if narrator is

direct participant

Third-person if narrator is

observer of events

First-person + Present

Great immediacy

Third-person + Past

distance and objectivity