Chronological Structure

Narrative tells a story beginning, middle and end has story elements prose or poetry fiction epic poems nonfiction: memoir nonfiction: autobiography/biography nonfiction: history science book topical poetry procedural

Epic Poetry tells a story beginning, middle and end has story elements The Iliad concrete poetry Beowolf topical poetry Odyssey The Most Secret Window

Prose tells a story beginning, middle and end has story elements has paragraphs “Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky” The Iliad Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. “Roses are Red” My Life: Bill Clinton “Hey Mama”