English Language: Middle School: Grades 6, 7 and 8 Quiz - Writing - Four Writing Styles (Answers)
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You may be familiar with the four writing styles, i.e., narrative, descriptive, persuasive and expository. Now there is a heavy emphasis placed upon each student to be able to write well. As the author, you can chose a specific writing style that feels the most comfortable to you, a style that will show your readers something about you as the author by bringing forth your personality and the moods you like to create.
[readmore]As you will be required to write more book reports, stories, poems and novellas, now would be a good time to revisit these four writing styles. Below is brief review of each style.
The Narrative Style: To narrate means to tell a story from your own viewpoint and your own perspective. For example: “I took dance lessons from the time I was three years old. In fact, I can remember a time that I didn’t want to become a professional dancer, although ballet was out simply due to my height.” The story is being told by the “first person, i.e., I.” In short, the writer has placed themselves within the story.
The Descriptive Style: When a writer uses great details in order to describe a person, place or thing, they use the descriptive style of writing. For example, let’s look at the following two sentences.
Thomas pushed the little dingy out into the lake.
Thomas, who was a ripe old age of 8, maneuvered the little dingy around from its perched position on the river bank and pushed it out onto the cold, morning lake. At this time of the morning the lake’s surface looked like an ice-blue pane of clear, perfect glass.
The first sentence is a basic, simple sentence. It does give the reader information but provides very little detail. On the other hand, the second sentence provides a great deal of description. It paints a much more vivid image for the reader to actually be able to visualize Thomas and know that he is a young boy. It also gives further description of the dingy, that being where it was located and its size. Finally, the author describes the look of the lake in the early morning. The writer of the second sentence is using the descriptive style of writing.
The Persuasive Style: In this style of writing the author is trying to persuade the readers to accept and embrace the author’s own views and opinions about what is being written about. This style can easily be seen in TV commercials such as product “A” has more meat in it than product “B” and because of that meat the value of product “A” is much greater than the value of product “B.” In a story, the author tries to persuade the reader to view things from a different perspective by first assuming that the reader’s opinions and viewpoints are different from the author’s. It is the author’s aim and goal to change the reader’s opinions and perspective to adopt the author’s own views and opinions.
The Expository Style: This style of writing is different from the persuasive style in that in this style of writing the author presents specific thoughts or ideas and then presents unbiased facts, figures and numbers about those ideas and thoughts without incorporating the author’s own opinions and views. Rather, the author allows the reader to come to their own conclusions. This style of writing is one of the more popular styles used and is found in many “How to” writings. Facts are given, such as instruction on how to build a tree-house, but how the reader uses those facts and interprets those instructions are solely chosen and decided by the reader.
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In this piece of writing the author is clearly trying to persuade the reader into thinking about whether going to college is really worth anything anymore. If the reader has a different opinion, the author is putting in reasons why that reader should change their opinion. This style of writing is a clear example of the persuasive style. Answer (c) is the correct style being used here
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In this style of writing the author is giving the reader instructions on hanging wallpaper. No persuasion is going on nor is it over descriptive or narrative. The writer is merely giving the reader facts on how to do something, i.e., preparing a wall for wallpaper. It is up to the reader to follow those instructions as relayed or use them in a different way as they see fit. This style of writing is clearly that of an expository style making Answer (d) the correct style
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This style of writing is being told from the first person’s perspective. There isn’t very much description being given and, at this point, there is no persuasion going on nor are there facts being presented in a non-biased way as to make it an expository style of writing. This style of writing is a clear example of a narrative. Answer (a) is the correct style used to describe this passage
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The author of this piece is quite obviously giving the reader a great deal of description of what Sterling was experiencing. The smell described by the author helps the reader to imagine what Sterling was experiencing. In this short piece of work, the writer is not trying to persuade the reader to change their views or opinions on any subject nor is the writer allowing the reader to come to their own conclusion about the situation. In addition, the writer is not writing from the first person perspective. Instead, this piece is a perfect example of the descriptive writing style. Answer (b) is, therefore, the correct style being used here
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In this writing the author is presenting the reader with information on the waterfalls of the world. Although the author will present some facts, the author is not going to make a conclusion and try and persuade the reader to think one way or another. That final decision will be up to the reader. This method of writing is clearly that of the expository style. Therefore, Answer (d) is the correct answer
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This style of writing is being told from the first person’s perspective. There isn’t very much description being given and, at this point, there is no persuasion going on nor are there facts being presented in a non-biased way as to make it an expository style of writing. This style of writing is a clear example of a narrative. Answer (a) is the correct style being used
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This one can be a little tricky because it appears as though it is giving you directions making it an expository piece, but upon closer look, you can see that the writer is actually trying to persuade the reader into wrapping gifts in a different way. It piques the reader’s attention to learn what it is that they can do and, perhaps, change their opinion on how to wrap a package or present. Therefore, this piece is an example of persuasive writing making Answer (c) the correct answer
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The author of this piece is quite obviously giving the reader a great deal of description. In this short piece of work, the writer is not trying to persuade the reader to change their views or opinions on any subject nor is the writer allowing the reader to come to their own conclusion about the situation. In addition, the writer is not writing from the first person perspective. Instead, this piece is a perfect example of the descriptive writing style. Answer (b) is, therefore, the correct style being used here
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This style of writing is being told from the first person’s perspective. There isn’t very much description being given and, at this point, there is no persuasion going on nor are there facts being presented in a non-biased way as to make it an expository style of writing. This style of writing is a clear example of a narrative. Answer (a) is the correct style being used
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This writing appears to be leading the readers to “how to prepare” quick, healthy meals. It is a good introduction but it doesn’t try to persuade the reader in any way, nor is it very descriptive. This style of writing is clearly that of an expository style making Answer (d) the correct answer
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