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• Types of Narrative Devices

  • Time-stretch
  • Flashback
  • Flashforward
  • Summary
  • Foreshadowing
  • Anecdotes
• Time-stretch


  A single event in the story that the author focuses writing about
• Flashback


  An event that happens in the past
• Flashforward


  Quickly looking at something that will happen in the story
• Summary


  A jamming of multiple events together and/or shortening
• Foreshadowing


  A literary device used to hint at events yet to come and keeps the readers anticipating for the next event
• Anecdotes


  A usually short narrative of an interesting, amusing, or biographical incident
• Definition Technique

  • Negation
  • Contrast
  • Etymology
  • Exemplification
  • Function
  • Synonyms
  • Analysis
  • Collocation
  • Comparison
• Negation


  The contradiction or denial of something
• Negation


  • Rick is not here
  • Neither I nor you attended the program
• Contrast


  A rhetorical device through which writers identify differences between two subjects, places, persons, things, or ideas
• Contrast


  • To begin with the differences: Lenin was cruel, which Gladstone was not; Lenin had no respect for tradition, whereas Gladstone had a great deal; Lenin considered all means legitimate for securing the victory of his party, whereas for Gladstone politics was a game with certain rules that must be observed. All these differences, to my mind, are to the advantage of Gladstone, and accordingly Gladstone on the whole had beneficent effects, while Lenin's effects were disastrous.
• Etymology


  The study of the history of linguistic forms, that is the history of how words are written and pronounced, and how their spelling and pronunciation changed
• Etymology


  • Journal, comes to us from the Late Latin diurnalis meaning "daily"
• Exemplification


  A writing that uses specific, vivid examples for the purpose of adding more information to explain, persuade, define, or illustrate a general idea
• Exemplification


  • When you assert that Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player, you may cite his number of championships or career points-per-game
• Function


  The kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; a role
• Synonyms


  One of two or more words or expressions of the same language that have the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses
• Synonyms


  • more - additional, further, supplemental

  money - cash, currency, capital, funds

  negative - fatalistic, pessimistic, refusal

  nice - pleasant, personable, agreeable

  need - require, must-have, necessity

  quarantine - seclusion, separation, confinement, isolation
• Analysis


  A detailed examination of anything complex in order to understand its nature or to determine its essential features: a thorough study
• Analysis


  • I wandered lonely as a cloud

  That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

  When all at once I saw a crowd,

  A host, of golden daffodils;

  Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
• Analysis


  • In the first stanza of 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,' Wordsworth explains his one-day occasional aimless wandering. The term "wandered" means walking free of their own accord. The poet is referring to himself as the "cloud" in a metaphorical sense of the word. Although the clouds mostly travel in groups, this cloud prefers singular hovering. However, he clearly mentions his passing through valleys and hills on a routine walk, simplifying the narrative.
• Collocation


  A predictable combination of words. It can be made up of any kinds of words such as verbs, nouns, adverbs and adjectives.
• Collocation


  • We can say 'heavy rain' but not 'strong rain' because it does not sound right. Likewise, we can say 'do exercise' but not 'make exercise'.
• Comparison


  A consideration or estimate of the similarities or dissimilarities between two things or people
• Comparison


  • Of all the hairstyles in the room, hers is most stylish.

  I'm often trying to do better than others
• Types of Sensory Details

  • Touch
  • Sight
  • Sound
  • Taste
  • Smell
• Sensory Details use the five senses to add depth of details to writing