Essay Unit Flashcards
Essay Analysis Steps
Title Author Type Topic Purpose Audience Thesis Order of info Writing devices Style Effectiveness
List the 5 types of essays
Descriptive Expository Persuasive Narrative Literary
Descriptive essay
To describe what and where
Expository essay
To explain why and how
Persuasive essay
To argue a point what
Narrative
To tell a story what when where how
Literary
Dealing with literary text
Purpose is most often linked to what? (2)
Thesis
Type of essay
Thesis statement
Most effective quotation
Chronological order
In order of time from first to last
Climatic order
Order of importance
Casual and logical order
One point must be explained in order for the next point to be understood
Random order
Equal importance and not linked to one another
Example
Something selected from a class of things and used to clearly show the character of all of them
Purpose of example
Greatly proves thesis
Clear concept
Process analysis
Explains how the various steps in a procedure lead to its successful accomplishment
Process analysis purpose
Allows readers to understand the gestures that must be done during the thing
Division and classification
A single subject is broken into its component parts and the task is to explain the parts that make up the whole
Purpose of division
Essay is more organized and easier to follow
Comparisons
Discussing similarities and differences of things
Purpose of comparison
Further emphasizes authors point and allows the readers to see things from different perspectives
Cause and effect
Answers why something happened by looking at the reasons for something
Purpose of cause and effect
Determine how things are related
Definition
Main idea is to explain something
