Lesson overview
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Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
dialogue
dialog
speech function
- 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: commanding. We use a snippet from Fracaswell Hyman's Mango Delight as a model.