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This document contains a reference sheet listing common narrative techniques used in creative writing. It defines each technique and provides an example from various short stories. The techniques included are simile, metaphor, personification, repetition, imagery, dialogue, interior monologue, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole. The reference sheet is intended to help the reader better understand how these techniques are used by authors.

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Narrative Techniques Chart 1

This document contains a reference sheet listing common narrative techniques used in creative writing. It defines each technique and provides an example from various short stories. The techniques included are simile, metaphor, personification, repetition, imagery, dialogue, interior monologue, onomatopoeia, and hyperbole. The reference sheet is intended to help the reader better understand how these techniques are used by authors.

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Narrative Techniques Reference Sheet


Name of Narrative
Technique
Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Definition

Example

Comparing two things with


similar qualities using the
words like or the
construction as _______ as.

Its an ugly sweater with


red plastic buttons and a
collar and sleeves all
stretched out like you
could use it for a jump
rope. ~Eleven

Comparing two things with


similar qualities by saying
that something is
something else.

And all at once everything


you feel is a forty-foot
wave of water, and all at
once you are in the wave,
being tossed in the wave,
and its frightening because
its too strong. ~Over and
Out

Giving human qualities to


inanimate objects

The cold air slapped my


warm face. ~Little Things
Are Big
(Air is not living and it is
doing the human action of
slapping.)

Repetition

Repeating a word, phrase,


or sentence over and over.

Not mine, not mine, not


mine, but Mrs. Price is
already turning to page
Letters can also be repeated thirty-two, and math
for dramatic effect. (See 2nd problem number four.
example.)
~Eleven
They b-beat m-me, I
gasped. They t-t-t-took
the m-money. ~The
Night I Won The Right to the
Streets of Memphis

Imagery

Using the five senses in


order to paint an

[My mother] had lovely


brown hair, a warm

(sensory language)

image/visual in the readers


minds (seeing, smelling,
tasting, touching, feeling).
The line(s) dont have to use
all five senses to count as
imagery.

enchanting smile, and a


soft, understanding
voice. ~My Side of the
Story

Name of Narrative
Technique
Dialogue

Definition
Showing the actual
words/conversation
between two or more
people using quotation
marks

Example
Dont you dare come
into this house until youve
gotten those groceries, she
said.
Theyll beat me;
theyll beat me, I said.
Then stay in the
streets; dont come back
here!
~The Night I Won The Right
to the Streets of Memphis

Interior monologue
(inner thinking)

Onomatopoeia

Hyperbole

Showing a characters inner


thoughts

I remember thinking
suppose I approach this
white lady in this deserted
subway station late at
night? What would she say?
What would be the first
reaction of this white
American woman? ~Little
Things Are Big

Formation of a word from a


sound

In blind fear, I let the stick


fly, feeling it crack against
a boys skull.
~The Night I Won The Right
to the Streets of Memphis

Use of extreme
exaggeration to make a
point

Its maybe a thousand


years old and even if it
belong to me I wouldnt say
so. ~Eleven

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