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  2. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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    Expository writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to explain or inform the audience about a topic. [13] It is considered one of the four most common rhetorical modes. [14] The purpose of expository writing is to explain and analyze information by presenting an idea, relevant evidence, and appropriate discussion.

  3. Text types - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue often included - tense may change to the present or the future. Descriptive language to create images in the reader's mind and enhance the story. Structure. In a Traditional Narrative the focus of the text is on a series of actions: Orientation (Introduction) in which the characters, setting, and time of the story are established.

  4. Fiction-writing mode - Wikipedia

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    A fiction-writing mode is a manner of writing imaginary stories with its own set of conventions regarding how, when, and where it should be used. Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct forms of expression, or modes, each with its own purposes and conventions.

  5. List of narrative techniques - Wikipedia

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    The author uses narrative and stylistic devices to create the sense of an unedited interior monologue, characterized by leaps in syntax and punctuation that trace a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings. The outcome is a highly lucid perspective with a plot. Not to be confused with free writing. An example is Ulysses. At one ...

  6. Narration - Wikipedia

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    Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience. [1] Narration is conveyed by a narrator: a specific person, or unspecified literary voice, developed by the creator of the story to deliver information to the audience, particularly about the plot: the series of events.

  7. Mode (literature) - Wikipedia

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    Susan Anker distinguishes between nine different modes of essay writing: narration, or writing that tells stories; illustration, or writing that gives examples; description, or writing that creates pictures in words; process analysis, or writing that explains how things happen; classification, or writing that sorts things into groups ...

  8. Dialogue in writing - Wikipedia

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    Dialogue tags other than said, such as murmured, whimpered or thundered, are known as 'said-bookisms', and are considered to detract from the narrative if over-used. [12] Journalist Cory Doctorow says said-bookisms lead to "writerly laziness" because it is easier to use dialogue tags to tell the reader how the character is speaking than have ...

  9. List of narrative forms - Wikipedia

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    Novella – a written, fictional, prose narrative normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. Parable – a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, which illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. Play – a story that is told mostly through dialogue and is meant to be performed on stage.