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Narrative: a sequence of events, real or imaginary, that are arranged as a record or imitation of life. The sequence of events is ordered in a meaningful way. There is a pattern that has an interior logic. End: action comes to a logical conclusion. We cut into the flux of life at a certain point in life. Function in literary texts: help establish three very important elements. Man finds the flux of life frightening, disturbing, repellent, and we use narrative, with their unique concordance of , in order impose a pattern into our world, the world seems meaningful if it has a pattern/order . We need beginnings to maintain our faith that our lives have meaning. 15 september 2015: denotative: the word on the page points directly to its technical meaning, one arrow, connotative: those in which the word on the page points in a number of directions; metaphors; multiple meanings in that moment.