The Practical Elements of Rhetoric, With Illustrative Examples
The Practical Elements of Rhetoric, With Illustrative Examples
Genung, John Franklin, 1850-1919
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~ The intimate con- nection of narration and description, which has been already men- tioned, gives rise to some forms of discourse wherein it is hard to Digitized by Google NARRATION. 369 determine which ot the two predominates. Nor perhaps would there be any practical good in attempting a distinction ; though in general it may be said that where the narrative or story-telling feeling predominates it leads to a more or less carefully constructed plot; while the descriptive feeling in predomina...nce is content with the moving portrayal of a series of scenes, without special care for the interaction of events. The following are the aspects most noticeable in the mixture of the two forms of discourse. Narration convoyed by Description. — Every extended nar- rative must rely on description for some essential features of its structure ; or, as is here expressed, it must be convoyed by de- scription. The main offices of description in narration may be described under two heads. 1. Description prepares the scene.
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