UNIT 4

• narratus, which means “to account or tell.”
• The term narrate comes from the Latin word narratus
• Narration tells or recounts in time sequence what happened to someone or to something, which may be fictional or true. It

  states what happened, where, and when.
• A narration tells a story
• travelogue - a piece of writing about someone's travel experiences
• cynical - questioning or doubting
• history articles, character sketches, anecdotes, biographies, autobiographies, travelogues, adventure stories, short stories - 8 examples of narrative texts
• Narrative paragraphs contain action verbs that move the

  story along in an interesting manner.
• dampened - to reduce the vigor of something
• bestow - to give; to put in appropriate space
• Narrative paragraphs use transitional words or phrases to indicate time and sequence
• When you need to give a vivid picture of the nature of people, places, events, and things, you need to use the descriptive pattern of paragraph development.
• description provides information on what a person, an object, a place, or a situation is like.
• concrete - characterized with specificity
• receding - withdrawing
• placid - serene or quiet
• beckon - to tell
• engulf - to swallow up
• The writer becomes a painter who colors his or her subject with words, particularly with adjectives, adverbs, and other concrete details.
• When writing a descriptive paragraph, the writer makes use of concrete and specific details, which are carefully chosen to paint a picture in the mind of the reader.
• literary analyses, descriptive essays, lab reports, business plans, research paper - 5 examples of writing genres that use descriptive paragraphs
• The two types of description, according to purpose, are objective and subjective.
• Objective definition focuses on the physical aspect, and it appeals to the intellect.
• An objective description aims to inform or to identify; hence, it is factual.
• subjective description aims to elicit special feelings or reactions

  because it is suggestive and evocative.
• Aside from adjectives, descriptive paragraphs also make use of signal words that denote location or direction
• A definition paragraph or essay explains what something is in comparison to other members of its class, along with any limitations.
• definition paragraph is widely used in most academic papers.
• A definition explains a concept, a term, or a subject.
• definition's main purpose is to tell what something is.
• the term, concept, or subject to be defined, the general class where it belongs, the characteristics that differentiate it from the other members of its class - 3 parts of definition
• synonym, intensive definition, extensive definiton - 3 types of definiton
• emit - to discharge or send forth
• banal - ordinary or boring
• synch - to happen at the same time
• celestine - heavenly
• Synonym - This is a word that is similar or almost similar in meaning to the word or idea being defined.
• Intensive definition - This includes the term to be defined, the class to which the term belongs, and the characteristic(s) that make it different from the other members in the same class or species.
• Intensive definition are also known as one-sentenced definition
• use relative pronoun, use participle, use infinitive - 3 ways to express an intensive definition.