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9.1叙述法 叙述法(narration)回答了发生了什么(what happened)这一问题。叙述经常用于讲述一系列事件。这种方法常用作小说(fiction)、传记(biographs)的支配方法，也可用作其他各种文体的辅助方法。例如，轶事(anecdotes)、寓言(fables)等都是用叙述形式阐述某一观点。 示范段落9-1 I was seven years old when I first became aware of the terrible power of guilt.For piling our toys into the toy box，Mother had rewarded my brother and me with five shiny pennies each.If I had ten pennies instead of just five，I could have bought a ginger bread man with raisin eyes and sugar-frosted hair.The image danced in my head all day，until，finally，I crept into my brothers room and stole his five pennies.The next morning，as my brother and I were dressing to go to school，I had all ten pennies in the pocket of my coat，cramming one of my fathers handkerchiefs on top of them.As my brother and I lined up in front of Mother to be kissed goodbye，she looked at my bulging pocket with amazement.What on earth do you have in your pocket?she asked.Its nothing，I said，as offhandedly as I could.Its nothing at all.Bewildered，but toobusy to investigate any further，Mother kissed me goodbye I ran out the door and down our gravel path as fast as my feet could carry me.But the farther from home I got，the more miserable I became.The shiny pennies in my pocket felt oppressively like one-ton boulders.And I was haunted by the idea that I had become a thief.Forgotten was the gingerbread man，for whose sake I had stolen my brothers pennies Finally，unable to bear my horrible feeling of guilt，I ran back home to blurt out my crime to my mother. | 
