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Want to know what narrative methods are there?

Narrative methods are:

1. Sequential narration: a method of narration according to the time sequence of events.

2. Flashback: A way to write down the end of an event or an important segment before telling it from the beginning.

3. Interpolation: During the narration of major events, according to the needs of expression, the main line is temporarily interrupted and other contents related to the central event are inserted.

4. Plain narration: it is parallel narration, that is, it describes two or more things that happen in different places at the same time.

5. Supplementary narration: In the process of narration, some things and situations mentioned above are supplemented and explained as necessary.

Writing method

1. Metaphor: The structure of metaphor is generally composed of ontology, vehicle and figurative words. The ontology and vehicle of metaphor must be different things, but they are similar. Using metaphor can turn plain into vivid, abstruse into simple and abstract into concrete.

2. Analogy: including personification and imitation. Personification is to describe things as adults and give them human emotions, will, actions, etc. Imitation is to describe people as things, or to describe this thing as another thing. Using analogy can make people or things colorful and vivid.

3. Metonymy: Replace the body with the body. It doesn't directly say the person or thing it wants to express, but uses related things instead. It can replace the whole with parts, the ontology with features, and the generic name with proper names. For example, in medicine, replacing words with "white beard" means replacing noumenon with features. Metaphor requires similarity between ontology and vehicle, while metonymy requires similarity between borrowing and ontology. Metonymy can express concrete images.