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Paragraph Plan for Personal Narrative
It is essential that your personal narrative feels real and encourage readers to connect emotionally with your experience. To achieve these things, you need to be sure that you show, don’t tell. Your writing needs to be specific, descriptive, and sensory-driven, so readers feel like they were there with you. Thus, it is regarded as the best practice to collect some specific details before you begin drafting. Use this chart to help you generate details, details, details that will help you paint a picture of your experience.
What objects can you see when you remember this experience? |
What colors can you remember? |
Do you associate any sounds with this experience? |
Are there any tastes or smells that are strongly associated with this experience? |
What tactile sensations do you remember? Any physical sensations related to touch? |
Literary devices you’d use… |
Descriptive words such as adjectives and adverbs that will you employ… |
Action verbs that are powerful and dynamic to describe the experience… |
Fragments you’d use. Be sure to specific how you’d use them. Remember to use them sparingly. |
Jargon essential to the experience and/or words or phrases from your mother tongue that capture the complexity of the situation. |