Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The more background information you can add to an inverted-pyramid story, the better.
2. Narrative writing is as difficult, if not more difficult, than inverted-pyramid writing.
3. The first few paragraphs of a narrative story should be used to place readers in the middle of a scene with as much detail as possible.
4. A narrative news story will be successful if it tells a good story in an engaging manner.
5. Nut graphs are used to bring narrative news stories to a satisfying conclusion.


1. False
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. False

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True False

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