Eight types of Paragraphs

In my English class I am learning about Eight Types of Paragraphs & Essays. The eight types of essays are narration, illustration, description, process analysis, classification, definition, comparison and contrast, and cause and effect. We are practice this types of rhetoric modes by reading this essay and writing about the different modes we found.

In his essay Strangers from  Different Shore, Ronald Takaki uses rhetoric modes to explain why Asian America felt strangers in America.  The first rhetoric mode was narration. Narration is how the writer tell the story of an event or experience. Takaki uses his own experience when he was a child and narrate the diversity of their neighborhood. He wrote “My teacher and textbooks did not explain the diversity of our community or the sources of our unity.”

The second rhetoric mode Takaki uses was comparison and contrast. Comparison and contrast is how the writer show the similarities and differences between two objects. For example in his essay he compares how many immigrants from Asia and European immigrants came to the United States. And differ who Greeks stay on the United States while Asian return to their hometown.  He wrote “ 55 percent of the Japanese who went to Hawaii between 1886 and 1924 returned to Japan.”