Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
dialogue
dialog
speech function
speech as action
punctuation
greetings
dialogue purpose
Fracaswell Hyman
Mango Delight
In most narratives, characters will want to talk to each other. But why? What are they doing? In this activity, we look at one action characters can do through speech: greeting. We use a snippet from Fracaswell Hyman's Mango Delight as a model.