Type:
1. Narrative is a kind of literary form, which focuses on remembering people, narrating, describing scenery and images, and writing about the experiences of characters and the development and changes of things.
2. Prose is a narrative literary genre, which expresses the author's true feelings and is flexible in writing;
3. Explanatory writing is an article genre with explanation as the main expression. Through the scientific explanation of physical things, it makes people have a scientific understanding of the shape, structure, nature, types, causes, functions and relationships of things or the concepts, characteristics, sources, evolution, similarities and differences of things, so as to obtain relevant knowledge.
4. Argumentative writing, also called reasoning writing, is a style of analyzing things, discussing things, expressing opinions and putting forward opinions. Argumentative writing is a common style that takes argumentation as the main way of expression, and directly expresses the author's views and opinions by putting facts and reasoning.
As far as characteristics are concerned:
1, the narrative is characterized by reflecting life through vivid events and expressing the author's thoughts and feelings. The central idea of the article is contained in concrete materials and expressed through vivid descriptions of people, things and things;
2. Prose is characterized by scattered form and spirit, profound artistic conception and beautiful language.
3. The characteristics of expository writing are: the center is distinct and prominent, the article is scientific and organized, and the language is accurate and vivid. It explains the characteristics, essence and regularity of things by revealing concepts.
4. Argumentative essays are characterized by clear viewpoints, sufficient arguments, concise language, reasonable argumentation and strict logic.
Extended data:
Six elements of narrative: people, time, place, cause, process and result of events. Narrative performance: narration, description (portrait, language, action, psychology, environment, etc. Or front, side, details), discussion, lyric, explanation, etc. Narrative expression techniques: description, contrast, rendering, comparison, bedding, symbol, metaphor, seeing the big from the small, promoting the big from the small, expressing emotion from the scene, expressing ambition from death and supporting ambition from things.
Prose is divided into narrative prose, lyric prose and philosophical prose.
Explanatory text focuses on introducing or explaining the shape, nature, causes and functions of things;
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