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What are narratives, expositions and argumentations? What else is there?
Common terms in narrative

1. Expression: narration, description, lyricism, discussion and explanation.

2. Rhetoric: metaphor, personification, parallelism, exaggeration, repetition, rhetorical question, rhetorical question, quotation, comparison and duality.

3. Writing techniques: foreshadowing, foreshadowing, connecting the preceding with the following, borrowing scenery to express feelings, expressing one's mind directly, setting off, symbolizing, imagining, associating, comparing, contrasting, expressing feelings by supporting things, rendering and contrasting, combining the virtual and the real, setting suspense, giving consideration to both the front and the back, associating, imagining, combining static and dynamic, discussing and blending scenes.

describe

A, from the description object: character description and environment description.

(1) Character Description:

language description

Portrait (appearance, manners) description

Action description

Description of psychological activities

(2) Environmental description: natural environment and social environment.

B, from the perspective of description: positive description, side description.

5. Narrative sequence: sequence, flashback and insertion.

Commonly used terms in explanatory texts

1. Description order:

⑴ Time sequence: historical sequence, time sequence, alternating sequence of four seasons, morning and evening (successively) sequence.

⑵ spatial order: Pay attention to the nouns indicating the position.

⑶ Logical order: from the first to the second, from outside to inside, from simple to complex, from this to that, from special to general, from phenomenon to essence.

2. Interpretation method: list numbers, compare, give examples, compare, classify, explain, define, list charts and quote data.

3. Two ways of explanation: simple explanation and vivid explanation.

4. Characteristics of explanatory language: accuracy and scientificity.

Argumentative writing is a style that analyzes and comments on a certain issue or thing and shows one's own views, positions, attitudes, opinions and propositions. Argumentative writing has three elements: argument, sentence and argument.