Exercise on Classification

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Practice Test 2: Exemplification Paragraph: Home Hazards

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Can you think of a way to apply the classification or exemplar format to a part of your fiction?

It can be useful when thinking about characters in a story. You can see that any time you make a custom character for a game you are using a classification system -- hair and eye color, size, abilities etc. It's a very common format not just in writing but in various kinds of thinking and planning.

Here's an example paragraph from literature (The Peterkin Papers)

But where should they go? It was difficult to find a house that satisfied the whole family. One was too far off, and looked into a tan-pit; another was too much in the middle of the town, next door to a machine-shop. Elizabeth Eliza wanted a porch covered with vines, that should face the sunset; while Mr. Peterkin thought it would not be convenient to sit there looking towards the west in the late afternoon (which was his only leisure time), for the sun would shine in his face. The little boys wanted a house with a great many doors, so that they could go in and out often. But Mr. Peterkin did not like so much slamming, and felt there was more danger of burglars with so many doors. Agamemnon wanted an observatory, and Solomon John a shed for a workshop. If he could have carpenters' tools and a workbench he could build an observatory, if it were wanted.

What is the topic?

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