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