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Narrative
Prose, which describes an action or a series of actions to
tell a story, is called narrative:
On ordinary days she was only allowed to play with
children of her own rank, so she had always to play
alone, but her birthday was an exception, and the King
had given orders that she was to invite any of her
young friends whom she liked to come and amuse
themselves with her.
Oscar Wilde The Birthday of the Infanta
Descriptive prose
The prose is descriptive when scenes, objects, people, or
even a person's feelings are described in such a way that we
can imagine them vividly.
He had a dreamy, far-away look in his eyes, and his sad,
The way scenes and people are described, the way the
characters think, talk or act are as important as the events
themselves and contribute largely to our enjoyment.
Dialogues
Dialogues are author's reproduction of actual conversation and in
reading aloud a reader should bear in mind the characters of the
speakers, their social background and the atmosphere, the
environment, in which the conversation takes place.
"Perhaps the grass in the other field is better," suggested the aunt
fatuously.
"Why is it better?" came the swift, inevitable question.
"Oh, look at those cows!" exclaimed the aunt. Nearly every field
along the line had contained cows or bullocks, but she spoke as
though she were drawing attention to a rarity.
"Why is the grass in the other field better?" persisted Cyril .
Hector Hugh Munro The story-teller
One day that Tom Walker had been to a distant part of the
neighborhood, he took what he considered a short cut homeward,
through the swamp. Like most short cuts, it was an ill-chosen
route. The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines
and hemlocks, some of them ninety feet high, which made it dark
at noonday, and a retreat for all the owls of the neighborhood.
Washing Irving The Devil and Tom Walker