This document outlines 10 methods for paragraph development: narration, cause and effect, description, analogy, comparison/contrast, classification, exemplification/functional analysis, facts, and definition. Each method is defined informally and describes its typical components, purposes, and types. Narration uses storytelling techniques while cause and effect examines reasons and results. Description represents subjects visually and analogy makes extensive comparisons.

1. Methods of Paragraph
Development
Bendiola, Ivan C.
Dinulos, Lyzza May A.
Llamas, Jean B.

2. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
1. Narration
Informal Components
Definition
- to tell
story.
Purpose/s
Types
a. Introduction - For clarifying a.
First
a
and illustrating person
b. Rising action abstract ideas
b.
Second
c. Climax
-emphasizing
person
important
d. Denouement relationship.
c.
Third
person
e. Resolution

3. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
2. Cause
and Effect
Informal
Definition
- deals
reasons
results.
Components
with a. Reasons
and
b. Results
Purpose/s
-to
explain
conditions
or
events
that
cause a certain
situation or may
discuss
conditions
or
events
that
result from a
situation.
Types
N/A

4. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
3.
Description
Informal
Definition
- to represent
the appearance
of
something
with the use of
words.
Components Purpose/s
a. Subject
(Noun)
b. Descriptive
Devices
(Adjective and
Adverb)
Types
- To present a. Objective
its subject for
description
the
mind’s
eye.
b. Subjective
Description

5. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
4.Analogy
Informal
Definition
- an extended
comparison
between
two
unlike things.
Components Purpose/s
a. Figures of
Speech (Simile,
Metaphor,
Metonymy,
Synecdoche)
Types
To
show a. Logic
relation
of
likeness
b. Rhetoric
between two
unlike objects. c. Linguistic

6. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
5.
Comparison,
Contrast
Informal Components
Definition
- pointing out a. Similarities
similarities
and
b. Differences
differences,
respectively.
Purpose/s
To
give
emphasis and
explain
the
relationship
between
two
things.
Types
N/A

7. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
6.
Comparison
and
Contrast
Informal Components
Definition
explains - Similarities
how
two
subjects are - Differences
similar
or
different
Purpose/s
- used to point
out
the
similarities
and
differences
between
two
objects, persons
or places
Types
N/A

8. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
7.
Classification
Informal
Definition
Components
- explains a - subject/ term
subject
by
to be
dividing
into
classified
types
or
categories
- its
classifications
Purpose/s
Types
to
explain
something
by
dividing it into
types, groups, or
categories
N/A

9. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
8.
Exemplification,
Functional
Analysis
Informal Compone
Definition
nts
- makes a
point about
a topic by
providing
examples to
support it
- explains
how
something
works or
exists as a
unit
- subject
- examples
- its
functions
Purpose/s
Types
- to support the
point you are
making about the
topic by using
examples
N/A
- to break down
the subject into
parts and explain
how each part
functions in
relation to the
operation or
existence of the
whole

10. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
9. Facts
Informal
Definition
- usually
includes
numbers,
statistics, or
other settings
that can be
proved
Components
Purpose/s
- subject/ topic - to provide
information
- data/
about certain
information
things or topic
to be discussed
Types
N/A

11. Methods of
Paragraph
Development
10.
Definition
Informal
Definition
Components
Purpose/s
- gives
a. Term
- to provide
meanings to
meanings to
terms or ideas b. Genus/ Class terms for
better
c. Differentia
understanding
Types
a. formal
definition
b. informal
definition