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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Lead section

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    Under the main guideline on this, the opening paragraph of a biographical article should neutrally describe the person, provide context, establish notability and explain why the person is notable, and reflect the balance of reliable sources. The first sentence should usually state: Name(s) and title(s), if any (see also WP:NCNOB).

  3. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Biography

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    MoS guidelines for opening paragraphs and lead sentences should generally be followed. The opening paragraph of a biographical article should neutrally describe the person, provide context, establish notability and explain why the person is notable, and reflect the balance of reliable sources.

  4. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Exactly the same guidelines that hold for a descriptive or narrative essay can be used for the descriptive or narrative paragraph. That is, such a paragraph should be vivid, precise, and climactic, so that the details add up to something more than random observations. [9] Examples of narration include: Anecdote; Autobiography; Biography; Novel ...

  5. Person - Wikipedia

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    A person (pl.: people or persons, depending on context) is a being who has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.

  6. Description - Wikipedia

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    Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. [1] It is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. [2]

  7. Stereotype - Wikipedia

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    During an ostensibly unrelated impression-formation task, subjects read a paragraph describing a race-unspecified target person's behaviors and rated the target person on several trait scales. Results showed that participants who received a high proportion of racial words rated the target person in the story as significantly more hostile than ...

  8. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    The writer can make the characters' dialogue more realistic and interesting by considering several factors affecting how people speak: personality psychology, [9] age, culture, family background, region, gender, education, and circumstances. [16] Words characterize by their diction, cadence, complexity, attitude [17] and fluency. Mannerisms and ...

  9. Poet - Wikipedia

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    A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience.