Lesson overview

Introduction
Story - Narrative
Middle years and up
narrative
dialogue
dialog
speech function
speech as action
punctuation
dialogue purpose
teasing
character relationships
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 how characters try to influence each other emotionally, through teasing. We use a snippet from Fracaswell Hyman's Mango Delight as a model.