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Lindsey 1 Emily Lindsey Professor Scarlett May Engl 1302 – 22707 February 02, 2024 Personal Narratives and Show vs. Tell Personal Narratives are stories. People tell and read them for many different purposes. For example, parents read bedtime stories to younger children, and incoming college students who are applying to colleges write about a crucial time in their lives. Students write personal narratives to explore their personal experiences. For most narratives, there needs to be a situation that needs to be resolved to keep your audience's attention. Students are allowed to write about a challenge that they have overcome. For example, you are dealing with some kind of discrimination. Whether it is racial or disability discrimination. Some ways to overcome any type of discrimination are embracing your beauty and strength, teaching children about kindness, and standing up for yourself. In your personal narrative, you also might want to include vivid details. Providing vivid details can bring your narrative to life. Some details that are in your personal narrative can be describing details. Other details in your personal narrative might be dialogue. Dialogue is quoting that you use to describe scenes with emotion and tension between the characters in your narrative. Dialogue lets your readers know if a character in your narrative is speaking with a stern voice or if the character is speaking with a kind voice. This is why dialogue can be useful in your personal narrative.
Lindsey 2 The difference between showing vs. telling is that by showing, you are using a description, helping the reader experience the story, and telling is telling someone what is happening in the story. Showing helps the reader to determine the vivid descriptions of the story. Telling is flat, and it also limits the reader's experience. For example, when I write, "The room is dark, cold, and wet. Only one string of light from a lightbulb that did not work half the time. Rain falls on the roof like firecrackers, loud and scary. There was no sun in sight. I heard a tiger outside, which made my day even more creepy. By the time the rain had gone, a stream of light came from the sun, and my room was lit up again." I am showing you that I am laying out the scene through my example. I am giving you an experience for you to experience when reading this example. I am giving you figurative language to make the example more interesting. Telling is when the author summarizes something and tells the reader what exactly happens. For example, " Jonah ate a bowl of mac and cheese and half of a peanut butter sandwich, waited 15 minutes, then Jonah went to the park to play with his friends, Matt and Kaden." I am telling you exactly what Jonah did that day. Jonah ate, waited, and then he went to the park and played with his friends. He did nothing else. This is an excellent example of telling.
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