Descriptive language often used to embellish story. Main characters play a major role, and plot develops around them.
Animals often take on human characteristics in narrative writing.
Text is full of action verbs but also many verbs that refer to what the human participants said, or felt or thought. Many linking words. Narrative contains dialogue between characters, which may change the tense to present or future. Normally written in past tense. Includes linking words to do with time.