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2. Dialogue in writing - Wikipedia

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   Contents. Dialogue in writing. This article is about dialogue in literature. For other uses, see Dialogue (disambiguation). Dialogue, in literature, is a verbal exchange between two or more characters (but can also involve strategic use of silence). [1] If there is only one character talking aloud, it is a monologue .

3. Rhetorical modes - Wikipedia

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   Works. Subfields. Related. v. t. e. The rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse) are a broad traditional classification of the major kinds of formal and academic writing (including speech-writing) by their rhetorical (persuasive) purpose: narration, description, exposition, and argumentation. First attempted [clarification needed] by ...

4. Dialogue (Bakhtin) - Wikipedia

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   Bakhtin described the open-ended dialogue as "the single adequate form for verbally expressing authentic human life". In it "a person participates wholly and throughout his whole life: with his eyes, lips, hands, soul, spirit, with his whole body and deeds. He invests his entire self in discourse, and this discourse enters into the dialogic ...

5. Cratylus (dialogue) - Wikipedia

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   t. e. Cratylus ( / ˈkrætɪləs / KRAT-il-əs; Ancient Greek: Κρατύλος, Kratylos) is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. [1] In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to tell them whether names are "conventional" or ...

6. Exposition (narrative) - Wikipedia

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   Exposition (narrative) Narrative exposition, now often simply exposition, is the insertion of background information within a story or narrative. This information can be about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc. [1] In literature, exposition appears in the form of expository writing embedded within ...

7. Paragraph - Wikipedia

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   For example, newspapers, scientific journals, and fictional essays have somewhat different conventions for the placement of paragraph breaks. A common English usage misconception is that a paragraph has three to five sentences; single-word paragraphs can be seen in some professional writing, and journalists often use single-sentence paragraphs.

8. Rhetorical question - Wikipedia

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   Rhetorical question. A rhetorical question is a question asked for a purpose other than to obtain information. [1] In many cases it may be intended to start a discourse, as a means of displaying or emphasizing the speaker's or author's opinion on a topic. A simple example is the question "Can't you do anything right?"

9. Dialogue - Wikipedia

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   Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is chiefly associated in the West with the Socratic dialogue as developed by Plato , but antecedents are ...