写作技巧1分析.doc

Narration What is narration 1.1 definition To narrate is to give an account of an event or a series of events. In other words, a narrative recreates an event or gives a sense of it by helping the audience visualize that event. classification Strategies for using narration 2.1 Include the key elements of narration In order to make a narrative easier to follow, you should often take the following elements into consideration: a setting, or some background information a goal, or the ultimate purpose of the writing an initiating event simple reaction an attempt an outcome the ending In some cases, some of them may be absent. In any sense, a narrative should at least contain a setting, a theme, a plot, and an ending. Eg. It happened that a fox was ambling(溜达) along a country lane when he spied a bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine（葡萄树） high above his head. Hungry as he was, the fox determined to have those grapes for his dinner. He stood tall on his hind legs, but could not reach the grapes. He leapt high in the air, but missed the grapes and fell painfully onto his back. He was too sore to make a further attempt at the grapes, so he sighed and turned away down the road. “Well,” he said to himself. “The grapes were probably sour anyway.” 2.2 Select significant details for narration Six Ws: Who? What? When? Where? How? Why? In selecting significant details, you should avoid those details which are not pertinent to the above six questions. For different subjects and different purposes, you can lay different amount of emphasis on each aspect. Sometimes one or two of the six Ws can even be omitted. Eg. I was standing right across the road there by my car getting ready to change a flat tire when I heard the train coming. Just as the engine reached the crossing, there was a loud grinding sound. And the noise did not stop either, the way it would in a car wreck; it kept going on, thundering and crashing. All of a sudden, the coal cars started to jackknife, falling off the t