STYLES AND TECHNIQUES OF ESSAY WRITING

1. What is persuasive writing ?

• To influence an action or thought

• Equipped with reasons, arguments and justifications

• Poetic in nature

• To tell a story, real or imaginative.

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI. 9-10.8

CCSS.RI.11-12.8

CCSS.RI.8.8

2. Choose the usage of descriptive writing ?

• Journal

• Advertisement

• Poems

• Short Stories

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

I believe that everyone should eat breakfast before going to their activities. The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of breakfast, especially for students.

3. What style of essay writing is the preceding text ?

(a)  

4. The goal of this type of _____ writing is to explain an idea or concept while incorporating details for support.

• descriptive

• expository

• narrative

• persuasive

5. 'A tragic event in your life' is an example of which of the following writing styles ?

• Descriptive writing

• Persuasive writing

• Expository writing

• Narrative writing

6. Identify the following writing style used in this text by Emily Dickinson titled 'Summer Shower''

'A drop fell on the apple tree,

Another on the roof,

And made the gables laugh,

The breezes brought dejected lutes,

And bathed them in the glee;

And signed the fete away.'

(a)  

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

You write a personal experience article about being trapped on Mount Everest for five days and how you survived. You send the article to a magazine to see if they will accept it for publication.

7. What type of writing is it?

narrative.

• Descriptive Writing

• Narrative Writing

• Expository Writing

• Persuasive Writing

You send a company a business letter informing them of your current projects.

8. What type of writing is it, exactly?

• Expository Writing

• Narrative Writing

• Persuasive Writing

• Descriptive Writing

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

You've just finished a lovely piece of children's literature. The text of children's literature written in a descriptive style.

• True

• False

10. What are the key points of Expository Writing ?

i. usually explains something in process

ii. in a logical order or sequence

iii. poetic in nature

iv. a person tells a story or event

• All

• i and ii

• i, ii and iii

• None of them