ENGL 300 Lecture 2: Narrative Form

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: English Main
• Course: ENGL 300
• Professor: Rodrigo

Document Summary

Narrative is a fundamental way that humans make sense of the world. Narrative form: a type of filmic organization in which the parts relate to one another through a series of causally related events taking place in time and space. The film shapes our expectations by summoning up curiosity, suspense, surprise, and other emotional qualities. A narrative is considered to be a chain of events linked by cause and effect and occurring in time and space. It is usually (cid:449)hat is (cid:373)ea(cid:374)t (cid:271)y the te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:862)sto(cid:396)y(cid:863) Begins with one situation that changes based on a pattern of cause and effect, and a new situation arises that brings about the end. A narrative may use parallelism to point out similarity among story elements. The story is the chain of events in chronological order. Plot is all the events that are directly presented to us, including their causal relations, chronological order, duration, frequency, and spatial locations.