Difference between a descriptive essay and a narrative essay?
Okay, so here's my problem: I am trying to write an essay from a prompt that uses the word "describe", but what I'm being asked to describe is not a single person or object, rather it's more broadly a process, relationship, or how I came to hold a certain belief.
Is this asking for a descriptive essay or a narrative essay?
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Description:
- discourse intended to give a mental image of something experienced
- a statement or account giving the characteristics of someone or somethingNarrative:
- something that is narrated : STORY, ACCOUNT
- the representation in art of an event or story
Your essay will use both, but focus on the description, because that's what your assignment calls for. Your telling the tale creates a narrator, but the narrator is not your focus.
Description is the evoking of images.
Narration is the process by which you evoke the images and tell the story.
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