What are some techniques for describing character dialogue when writing novels?

Character dialogue is language description.

First, the language must be able to show the character’s identity, occupation, status, and experience.

Second, the language description must be able to express the characters’ thoughts and feelings and reflect the characters’ psychological activities.

Third, the language description must be personalized and consistent with the identity of the character. It is necessary to show the personality characteristics of "this one" in describing the voice and narrating the conversation.

Fourth, language description should also be used to foreshadow and promote the development of the storyline, explain the ins and outs of things, or introduce the environment or background of the times through language description, or make discussions through the mouths of characters to deepen the theme and make the story more interesting. Language description becomes an integral part of the work.

Language description is an important means of shaping character image. Successful language description always clearly displays the character's personality, vividly expresses the character's thoughts and feelings, and profoundly reflects the character's inner world, making the reader "as if hearing his voice and seeing his person" and gain a deep impression.

Extended information

1. Novel:

A literary genre that focuses on portraying characters and reflects social life through complete storylines and environmental descriptions.

Characters, plot, and environment are the three elements of a novel. A plot generally includes four parts: beginning, development, climax, and ending, and some include a prologue and an epilogue. Environment includes natural environment and social environment. ?

Novel can be divided into novels, novellas, short stories and micro-novels (small novels) according to length and capacity. According to the content of expression, it can be divided into science fiction, public case, legend, martial arts, romance, fan fiction, officialdom, etc.

According to the system, it can be divided into chapter novels, diary novels, epistolary novels and autobiographical novels. According to the language form, it can be divided into classical Chinese novels and vernacular novels. Novels, poetry, prose, and drama are also known as the "four major literary genres".

2. Methods of depicting characters in novels:

Psychological description, action description, language description, appearance description, and demeanor description. At the same time, novels are a writing method.

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