1 Biologya branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws:the mathematical sciences. 2  Biologysystematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.
Bracha Alpert has identified three different patterns of classroom discourse: (1) silent (the teacher talks almost all the time and asks only an occasional question),(2) controlled (as in the excerpt above), and (3) active (the teacher facilitates while the students talk primarily to each other).
Genette points out in Narrative Discourse Revisited that the two main modes of. narration are the charactersâ discourse and the narratorâs discourse (or rhesis. and diegesis, quotation and pure narrative) (Revisited 43).