Personal Narrative

- Story about you (non-fiction)
- Specific time or specific problem/conflict
- Has to have a setting
   - Characters, or people involved (the characters have to be involved in the situation or problem, have to be relevant)
- Expressed Ideas----> Clear
- Focus/Meaning
      - Emotional Center
- Surface level story with an under lying message
- Scenes
     - people interacting and talking
- Exposition---> Reflection
                              - Your take on what happened
                     ---> Connections
                      - Background Info
- Significant in Life


Abstract
- Vague, broad, general
    ex: big, small; good, bad; nice, mean
- Specific/Concrete
   - help pain picture for the reader
   - help point to a focus