Writing

Instructions on the text

You have read many short stories by different authors all using different techniques to hold your attention while you read.

Your job is to write a narrative (200 words minimum) describing an event that happened to you that had a beginning, a middle and an end.

Use at least a couple of the techniques below to make your story more interesting:

1) Use dialogue.

2) Develop your setting or mood with descriptive language that appeals to the senses.

3) Use metaphors and similes.

4) Develop character by showing how a person changes during the events in your story.

5) Use dramatic irony to enhance humour or tension in your story.

6) Develop your story using rising action.

7) Have a climax that resolves the events of the story. 

Write your story below.