How to Write in Inverted Pyramid Style

The inverted pyramid is a metaphor used to illustrate how information should be arranged or presented within a text, particularly within a news article or story. This pyramid is much like an upside down triangle, where the most important and substantial information is at the top. The triangle's orientation is meant to illustrate that the most important information should be read first. I have made an example for you from a well-known fairy tale, The Frog Prince.

Princess to Wed Frog Prince
By Kelly Allan

Anita Mann, 16, Princess of Wailing and Spoiled, will wed Charles Lily Padd, 40, Prince of Frogs, on February 29th, leap year.

After a long enchantment by a spiteful fairy, who liked to change men into frogs, Padd received treatment from Princess Mann that turned him back into his formally Prince self. "She was reluctant to share her food and bed with me because I was a frog, but little did she know she would end up marrying a handsome prince," says Padd.
Mann says that the couple met while she went out for a walk in the wood. "I had dropped my ball in the spring and Charles, who was an actual frog back then, retrieved it for me."

Padd states that he found her to be very beautiful and young, clad in her bonnet and clogs. He had made her promise that if he got her ball for her, she would have to let him eat from her plate and sleep on her bed.

"She promised, I brought the ball, and then she left me." Padd complains.

Padd says that it took him a full day to follow the princess to her palace. "I knocked on the door and cried out, 'Open the door, my princess dear, open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said by the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade.'"

Mann had opened the door to find Padd standing in her doorway. "I slammed the door on him," she admits. "He was just a gross old frog."

The King of Wailing and Spoiled, Duke Phillip, set his daughter to fetch Padd from the door to honor her word. Mann says that her father had made her place Padd on a chair to sit next to her, eat off of her own plate and sleep on the pillow of her bed.

The next morning, Padd had decided to leave the house. "I wanted to go for a swim," he states, "I was all dry from being in the palace all day."

Mann says that she believed that she had finally rid herself of the "smelly frog," and had closed the door on him again.
But Padd again showed up on Mann's doorstep, and again muttered his words, "Open the door, my princess dear, open the door to thy true love here! And mind the words that thou and I said by the fountain cool, in the greenwood shade."
Mann again went to fetch Padd from the doorway, again let him eat from her plate, and again let him sleep on her pillow. "I didn't get much sleep those nights," she says, "But I lost five pounds from not eating."
Padd ended up staying three nights.

"I begged and begged Father to kick him out of the house," Mann explains. "But he is a man of his word and wants the same of his children."

The morning after the third night, however, turned out to be an astonishment for Mann. Before her was not a frog, but a grown man.

"He was as old as my father," says Mann, "But he had the most beautiful eyes."

Mann will marry Padd next to the spring where the couple met, and then return to Padd's kingdom to set up residence.

Mann says she will never forget Padd's first words to her as a human, "You have broke his cruel charm, and now I have nothing to wish for but that you should go with me into my father's kingdom, where I will marry you, and love you as long as you live."