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What do you mean by insert?

Illustration, also known as illustration, refers to inserting pictures into books, periodicals, newspapers and other words to help explain the content and play an auxiliary role in explaining words or appreciating art.

Illustrations of Chinese teaching materials

Illustration type:

1. Photo illustration

Photographic illustrations are one of the most commonly used illustrations. Usually, the pictures of real objects are directly used, which can show the real objects objectively. Illustrations of popular science books such as animals and plants.

2. Drawing illustrations

There are many types of painting illustrations, including realism, abstraction, concreteness, cartoon, plane and so on. In drawing illustrations, we often use cartoons. The advantage of this form of expression is that it can grasp some characteristics of the described object to exaggerate and emphasize, and highlight the essential characteristics of things, thus strengthening the performance effect. In addition, painting illustrations are often used as illustrations of complex things, such as the instructions for home appliances.

The role of illustrations:

1. Show the content of the text by graphic method, which is vivid, intuitive and clear at a glance;

2. Supplementary text;

3. Be able to express complex scientific and technological problems and reduce text narration;

4. Rich text and pictures to beautify the layout.