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Description is one of four rhetorical modes (also known as modes of discourse), along with exposition, argumentation, and narration. Each of the rhetorical modes is present in a variety of forms and each has its own purpose and conventions.
Description is also the fiction-writing mode for transmitting a mental image of the particulars of a story.
Fiction is a form of narrative, one of the four rhetorical modes of discourse. Fiction-writing also has distinct forms of expression, or modes, each with its own purposes and conventions. Agent and author Evan Marshall (agent) identifies five fiction-writing modes: action, summary, dialogue, feelings/thoughts, and background (Marshall 1988, pp. 143–165). Author and writing-instructor Jessica Page Morrell lists six delivery modes for fiction-writing: action, exposition, description, dialogue, summary, and transition (Morrell 2006, p. 127). Author Peter Selgin refers to methods, including action, dialogue, thoughts, summary, scene, and description (Selgin 2007, p. 38). Currently, there is no consensus within the writing community regarding the number and composition of fiction-writing modes and their uses.
The Fall of the House of Usher - An Opera by (1991)
Libretto by Chris Judge Smith from the tale by Edgar Allen Poe
The Characters:
THE CHOIR - Sarah-Jane Morris
MONTRESOR - Andy Bell
RODERICK USHER - Peter Hammill
MADELINE USHER - Lene Lovich
THE HERBALIST - Herbert Gronemeyer
THE VOICES OF THE HOUSE - Peter Hammill
Performed, arranged and recorded by Peter Hammill at Sofa Sound
and Terra Incognita
Except: parts of Ms. Lovich's performance, recorded at H.O.M.E. Studios
by Les Chappell.
Mr. Gronemeyer's performance recorded at Outside Studios