Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
dialogue
dialog
punctuation
character voice
word choice
expanded expression
unique voice
distinct voice
Fracaswell Hyman
Mango Delight
In most narratives, characters will want to talk to each other. In this activity, we explore character voice—how we give our characters a distinct way of speaking—through word choice and expanded expression. We use a snippet from Fracaswell Hyman's Mango Delight as a model.