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  2. Description - Wikipedia

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    Fiction writing specifically has modes such as action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition. [3] Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scenes, and description. [4] Description is the mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story.

  3. Embodied writing - Wikipedia

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    Embodied writing practices are used by academics and artists to highlight the connection between writing and the body, [1] bring consciousness to the cultural implications of academic writing, [2] and inform an understanding of art forms as first person narrative. [3] Embodied writing practices serve as a means to transcend the traditional ...

  4. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of description is to re-create, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture that which is being described. Descriptive writing can be found in the other rhetorical modes. A descriptive essay aims to make vivid a place, an object, a character, or a group. It acts as an imaginative ...

  5. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive writing is characterized by sensory details, which appeal to the physical senses, and details that appeal to a reader's emotional, physical, or intellectual sensibilities. Determining the purpose, considering the audience, creating a dominant impression, using descriptive language, and organizing the description are the rhetorical ...

  6. Text types - Wikipedia

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    Factual texts merely seek to inform, whereas literary texts seek to entertain or otherwise engage the reader by using creative language and imagery. There are many aspects to literary writing, and many ways to analyse it, but four basic categories are descriptive, narrative, expository, and argumentative.

  7. Epithet - Wikipedia

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    An epithet (from Ancient Greek ἐπίθετον (epítheton) 'adjective', from ἐπίθετος (epíthetos) 'additional'), [1] also a byname, is a descriptive term (word or phrase) commonly accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a real or fictitious person, place, or thing.

  8. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    According to Austin, in order to successfully perform an illocutionary act, certain conditions have to be met (e.g. a person who pronounces a marriage must be authorized to do so). [1]: 8 Besides the context, the performative utterance itself is unambiguous as well. The words of an illocutionary act have to be expressed in earnest; if not ...

  9. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    Characterization or characterisation is the representation of characters (persons, creatures, or other beings) in narrative and dramatic works.The term character development is sometimes used as a synonym.