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| narration | An account of events as they happen using chronological order. |
| description | Develops an essay whose primary aim is to depict a scene, person, thing, or diea. |
| process | stresses how a sequence of seps produces a certain effect |
| development by definition | defines a subject in a fuller or more extended--more thorough--way than does a dictionary |
| compare/contrast | systematically match two items for similarities and differences |
| classification | that a subject--a person, place, event, or object--is identified and broken into parts and sub-parts |
| cause & effect | writer's chief aim is to analyze cause or predict effect |
| example | instance that is representative of an idea or claim or that otherwise illustrates it |
| flashback | a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work |
| spatial | relating to, occupying, or having the character of space |
| chronological | of relating to, or arranged in or according to the order to time |
| order of importance | discussing the details from the most important to the least or the other way around |
