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Similarity and Differences Between Narrative and Descriptive Essay

Narrative essays tell a story through a sequence of events, while descriptive essays explain the details of a topic such as what something is made of and how it functions. Both essays involve a creative and critical process of reflection to explore significance. The main difference is that narrative essays use a point of view to tell a story, while descriptive essays vividly describe people, places, or events using sensory details to show the reader rather than just telling them.

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Similarity and Differences Between Narrative and Descriptive Essay

Narrative essays tell a story through a sequence of events, while descriptive essays explain the details of a topic such as what something is made of and how it functions. Both essays involve a creative and critical process of reflection to explore significance. The main difference is that narrative essays use a point of view to tell a story, while descriptive essays vividly describe people, places, or events using sensory details to show the reader rather than just telling them.

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Similarity and differences between narrative and descriptive essay Descriptive essay Explains the what, why, how,

when, and where of a topic. For example, a descriptive essay about a tree would explain what its made of, why it grows, when it grows, and so on. Narrative essay Tells a story in a sequence of events. There should be some point, lesson, or idea gleaned from this narrative to make the essay meaningful. Similarity Writing the Personal Narrative or a Descriptive Essay is both a creative and critical process. This essay is not just a re-telling of an experience in your past. It is an opportunity to reflect on a past experience in an effort to understand it in a new way and to explore the significance of the event upon yourself or others. Writer helps the reader understand the significance of the event. Common differences between narrative and descriptive essay The difference between a narrative essay and a descriptive essay is that the narrative essay use someones point of view to tell the story and the descriptive describe the person or the place or the event using vivid images that refer to the smell, touch, sound, taste, personality, and behavior, also, person job or hobbies, and describe what someone feel about the person throughout the use of all these categories. In another word when writing descriptive essay you show your reader not tell him using the senses of sight also. Try to give a lot of details for instance if you are describing a person give more details about the physical traits including his hair color, height, weight, eye color, skin smooth or rough and try to put them in order from hair to feet.

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