Types of Discourse

THE TERM "DISCOURSE"
comes from the Latin word discursus, which means "conversational speech."

TYPES OF DISCOURSE
argument
narration
description
exposition

is a type of discourse in which the writer or speaker attempts to convince an audience that his or her opinion is correct through logic.
Argumentative discourse includes :
Essays
lectures
sermons
political speeches.
In an argument, the writer or speaker begins with a thesis, which is a clear, explicit statement of beliefs or opinions then he
supports the thesis
ARGUMENT (ДОКАЗ)

An argument is not the same as persuasion.
In an argument, the writer or speaker presents evidence to get the audience to logically agree with his or her point of view.
Persuasion, however, is designed to get an audience to both accept a particular point of view and act on that belief.

NARRATIVE DISCOURSE
With narrative discourse, an audience is told a story.
The story is designed to make the audience feel differently about a certain topic.
Narrative discourse might take the form of a: play
novel
folk tale
personal narrative or myth.

DESCRIPTION
is designed help the audience visualize people and places
The writer or speaker uses nouns and adjectives to give the audience a sense of what something is like materially.
Description might be found in a descriptive part of a novel or in a descriptive essay.

is designed to inform the audience about a topic.
Types of exposition: including definition
analysis
compare-and-contrast
problem-and-solution
cause-and-effect.
There are many strengths and weaknesses associated with each type of exposition, and each type has a completely different purpose..
EXPOSITION( ОПИС, ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ)

GUESS!))
"The day I picked my dog up from the pound was one of the happiest days of both of our lives. I had gone to the pound just a week earlier with the idea that I would just "look" at a puppy. Of course, you can no more just look at those squiggling little faces so filled with hope and joy than you can stop the sun from setting in the morning. I knew within minutes of walking in the door that I would get a puppy… but it wasn't until I saw him that I knew I had found my puppy.
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory. Victory at all costs - Victory in spite of all terrors - Victory, however long and hard the road may be, for without victory there is no survival. Let that be realized. No survival for the British Empire, no survival for all that the British Empire has stood for, no survival for the urge, the impulse of the ages, that mankind shall move forward toward his goal.