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Rhetorical modes

And most of them follow not except assumption.  Indeed, assumption avails   not against the truth at all.  Indeed, Allah is Knowing of what they do.  (Quran 10: 36) Honest relations are just like water. No color, no shape, no place, no taste, but still very important for life. Rhetorical modes   (also known as   modes of discourse ) describe the variety, conventions, and purposes of the major kinds of   language -based   communication , particularly   writing   and   speaking . Four of the most common rhetorical modes and their purpose are   narration ,   description ,   exposition , and   argumentation Narration The purpose of   narration   is to tell a story or narrate an event or series of events. This writing mode frequently uses the tools of descriptive writing. Narration is an especially useful tool for sequencing or putting details and information into some kind of logical ord...

Construct characters from nothing

Construct characters from nothing ·        “Heavy is the head that holds the pen of creation. We construct these characters from nothing, molding them from our imaginations. We give them hopes and dreams and unique personalities until they feel so real you’re mind believes it must be so. We watch them grow by our hands, not always knowing the paths they will choose with the obstacles we throw at them. They take on a life of their own and often surprise even us by their actions we couldn’t have imagined before it poured out of us onto the paper. We could change it if we really wanted to, but it would be forced and not be true to the characters. And when something tragic happens and one is lost, we feel that loss even though we know they were not a friend, a family member or even ourselves. It can be a hard thing to voice sometimes, to give tribute to the one’s left behind with the real sadness over something not so real. But we find the words and press o...

Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality

Never make a promise while intending not to keep it. This is forbidden as it falls within lying and hypocrisy. Bukhārī and Muslim narrated that the Prophet said:“Three traits single out a hypocrite, even if he prays or fasts and claims to be Muslim:If he speaks, he lies. If he makes a promise, he does not keep it. If he is entrusted, he betrays the trust.” “Photographs are a way of imprisoning reality...One can't possess reality, one can possess images--one can't possess the present but one can possess the past.”   Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. Susan Sontag An   open-ended question   is designed to encourage a full, meaningful answer using the subject's own knowledge and/or feelings. It is the opposite of a closed-ended question, which encourages a short or single-word answer. Closed-ended questions are those which can be answered by a simple "yes...