Rhetorical modes
Chris Baldick defines mode as an unspecific critical term usually designating a broad but identifiable kind of literary method, mood, or manner that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre.Literary agent and author Evan Marshall identifies five different fiction-writing modes: action, summary, dialogue, feelings/thoughts, and background.[5] Author and writing-instructor Jessica Page Morrell lists six delivery modes for fiction-writing: action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition.[6] Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including these six: action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scene, and description.Narration is an especially useful tool for sequencing or putting details and information into some kind of logical order, traditionally chronological.That something can be as small as a minor personal experience or as large as a war, and the narrator's tone can be either intimate and casual or neutrally objective and solemn.[9] Examples of narration include: The purpose of description is to re-create, invent, or visually present a person, place, event, or action so that the reader can picture that which is being described.The ideal is to present supporting evidence which points so plainly to the correctness of one's stand that one can afford to be civil and even generous toward those who believe otherwise.[21] Another form of persuasive rhetoric is the use of humor or satire in order to make a point about some aspect of life or society.