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Personal Narrative

Nonfiction and Documentary Prose

A personal narrative is a prose narrative that relates personal experience, usually told in the first person, with nontraditional content: personal meaning it draws on a story from the writer's own life or experience, and nontraditional meaning it does not fit the typical criteria of a narrative.

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A prose narrative relating personal experience usually told in first person 1
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1. Personal narrative - Wikipedia
  • Definition
    a prose narrative relating personal experience usually told in first person
  • In Group: Life Writing and Personal Narrative, Lead section
    A personal narrative is a story about the narrator's own experiences, usually told in the first person.
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