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As a fiction-writing modeFiction-writing also has modes: action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition.[4] Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scenes, and description.[5] Currently, there is no consensus within the writing community regarding the number and composition of fiction-writing modes and their uses. Description is the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story. Together with dialogue, narration, exposition, and summarization, description is one of the most widely recognized of the fiction-writing modes. As stated in Writing from A to Z, edited by Kirk Polking, description is more than the amassing of details; it is bringing something to life by carefully choosing and arranging words and phrases to produce the desired effect.[6] The most appropriate and effective techniques for presenting description are a matter of ongoing discussion among writers and writing coaches. Purple prose{{Main|Purple prose}}A purple patch is an over-written passage in which the writer has strained too hard to achieve an impressive effect, by elaborate figures or other means. The phrase (Latin: "purpureus pannus") was first used by the Roman poet Horace in his Ars Poetica (c. 20 BC) to denote an irrelevant and excessively ornate passage; the sense of irrelevance is normally absent in modern usage, although such passages are usually incongruous. By extension, purple prose is lavishly figurative, rhythmic, or otherwise overwrought.[7] PhilosophyIn philosophy, the nature of description has been an important question since Bertrand Russell's classical texts.[8] ==See also== {{div col|colwidth=22em}}
Notes1. ^{{harvtxt|Crews|1977|p=13}} 2. ^{{harvtxt|Crews|1977|p=13}} 3. ^{{harvtxt|Crews|1977|p=16}} 4. ^{{harvp|Morrell |2006 |p=127}} 5. ^{{harvp|Selgin |2007 |p=38}} 6. ^{{harvp|Polking |1990 |p=106}} 7. ^{{harvtxt|Baldick|2004}} 8. ^{{cite|last=Ludlow|first= Peter |year=2007|title= Descriptions|publisher=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|url= http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descriptions/}} References
|title = The Marshall Plan for Novel Writing |first = Evan |last = Marshall |publisher = Writer's Digest Books |location = Cincinnati, OH |year = 1998 |pages = 143–165 |isbn = 1-58297-062-9}}
|ref = harv |title = Between the Lines: Master the Subtle Elements of Fiction Writing |first = Jessica Page |last = Morrell |publisher = Writer's Digest Books |location = Cincinnati, OH |year = 2006 |page = 127 |isbn = 978-1-58297-393-7}}
|ref = harv |title = Writing A to Z |first = Kirk |last = Polking |publisher = Writer's Digest Books |location = Cincinnati, OH |year = 1990 |isbn = 0-89879-435-8}}
|ref = harv |first = Peter |last = Selgin |title = By Cunning & Craft: Sound Advice and Practical Wisdom for fiction writers |publisher = Writer's Digest Books |location = Cincinnati, OH |year = 2007 |page = 38 |isbn = 978-1-58297-491-0}}{{Navboxes |list ={{Analytic philosophy}}{{Literary composition}}{{Logic}} }} 8 : Grammar|Narratology|Writing|Rhetoric|Literary concepts|Rhetorical techniques|Philosophical logic|Fiction-writing mode |
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