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Question

1. What does 'Narrative' Mean?

2.What are the main styles of narration?

3.If a narrator is outside the story, what is he or she?

4. Explain what is meant by 'control' in writing

5. If writing is linear what is it?

6. If your task is 'discursive,' how is it written?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

1. A narrative is a story told by a 3rd person (someone who is not in the story).
2. Poetry, oral, film, historical, environment.
3. This narrator is 3rd person: an objective and detached storyteller.
4. I think it means the writer is carefully directing the manner in which the events unfold, and the manner in which characters act, interact, and appear in the text.
5. I think it means the writer is following a process according a particular set of steps.
6. discursive \dis-KUR-siv\, adjective:
1. Passing from one topic to another; ranging over a wide field; digressive; rambling.
2. Utilizing, marked by, or based on analytical reasoning -- contrasted with intuitive.

Answer 3

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1) Narrative: A Verse or prose accounting of an event or sequence of events, real or invented. The term is also used as an adjective in the sense "method of narration." For example, in literary criticism, the expression "narrative technique" usually refers to the way the author structures and presents his or her story.
Narratives range from the shortest accounts of events, as in Julius Caesar's remark, "I came, I saw, I conquered," to the longest historical or biographical works, as in Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, as well as diaries, travelogues, novels, ballads, epics, short stories, and other fictional forms.

2)Narration: The telling of a series of events, real or invented. A narration may be either a simple narrative, in which the events are recounted chronologically, or a narrative with a plot, in which the account is given in a style reflecting the author's artistic concept of the story. Narration is sometimes used as a synonym for "storyline."
The recounting of scary stories around a campfire is a form of narration

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