Narration (its Definition and Elements).

Narration is the act of telling a story.

1. Patterns of Development in Writing: Narration

2. Narration - the act of telling a story - It is basically a skill of chronologically telling a story or events or experience that signaled by transition devices

3. Transition devices - are words or phrases that help carry a thought from one sentence to another, from one idea to another, or from one paragraph to another.

4. Elements : Setting – serves as background of a story for it gives the place and time

5. Character – each story has main and subordinate characters . The characters can be protagonist , antagonist , static or flat , dynamic , round , antihero , and foil

6. Plot – covers the series of incidents that occurs in the story.

7. Conflict – elevates the reader’s emotion until it reaches solution. It is the problem needs to be resolved.

8. Theme – the significant truth about life that a story attempts to communicate to its readers. It shows that reading narratives entertains and gives us profitable experiences.