of 2 Samuel and at least part of the twelfth, because this entire section of 2 Samuel records David’s sin and its devastating consequences.”1 What constitutes a unit of thought in narrative text? A whole story. The limits of a story (where it begins and ends) are determined primarily by analyzing the plot. Stories typically contain an exposition, a crisis, a resolution, and sometimes a conclusion. Additionally, if the narrator uses a chiastic structure, the beginning and final items in a chiasm will