Question

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Comment on the dominant variety of prose (narrative, expository or descriptive) present in each of the following passages. Write a brief critical appreciation of each passage in about 250 words each:
b) The sun was still red and large; the sky above cloudless, and light blue glaze poured over the baking clay. But close over the ground a dirty grey haze hovered. As they followed the lane towards the sea they came to a place where, yesterday, a fair-sized spring had bubbled up by the roadside. Now it was dry again, although gurgling inwardly to itself. But the group of children were hot, far too hot to speak to one another and they sat on their ponies as loosely as possible, longing for the sea. The morning advanced. The heated air grew quite easily hotter, as if from some enormous furnace from which it could draw at will. Bullocks only shifted their stinging feet when they could bear the soil no longer; even the insects were too lethargic to pipe, the basking lizards hid themselves and panted. It was so still you could have heard the least buzz a mile off. Not a naked fish would willingly move his tail. The ponies advanced because they must. The children ceased even to think.
c) One of my favorite family experiences was when I went to see Anne Frank’s ( a Jewish victim of the Nazi persecution during World War II) hideout in Amsterdam, Holland. I had read Anne’s published diary when I was younger, so I was extremely thrilled to actually have the chance to see where she and her family hid from the Germans for so many months. I walked up the stairs of an apartment building and into a room with only a bookshelf in it. From what I remembered from reading the diary, there was a doorknob behind the books. I found the doorknob and turned it and there was the secret annex. When I steeped into the room behind the bookshelf, I felt as if I had stepped back into history. I found Anne’s room still with pictures of her favorite celebrities on her walls. The Frank family’s furniture was still placed where they had left them in the rooms, everything just as described in the diary. I toured each room in awe of actually seeing how they had lived, yet with sadness to know how it all ended. Anne’s diary was no longer just a book to me, but true heart-felt, emotional life story written by a girl I felt I almost knew

Answer 1

The dominant variety of prose here is Narrative

Explanation:

• Narrative prose refers to any form of writing in which the work is prose rather than poetry and, through acts, tells a definite history. This prose style is used in modern fiction and historical literature .
• The events that form the story occur in a narrative language, and are told throughout the work itself. This kind of prose is generally written at the time of the action takes place and tells the story through the events.
• A narrative  tells us what happened or what happens. It focuses primarily on events. In other words, the explanation of the events is a narrative. It may deal with internal or external events. By internal events, we mean the feelings, thoughts,  and emotions of individuals.  
• The narrative writing attempts to replicate a real or imagined event that we can psychologically remember. We briefly get lost in the characters and events of the narrative. Narratives can deal with the facts or fiction.