Informative Essay - Informative essay presents factual information about a subject.
It provides
information to the reader (your audience). The purpose is to inform, clarify, explain, define, or instruct
by giving information, explaining why or how, clarifying a process, or defining a concept.
Persuasive Essay -is a written form of an oral debate. A writer can convince a reader that his opinion of
a topic is correct. Furthermore, the reader should understand what the writer wants to say.
Argumentative Essay is a genre of writing that requires the author to investigate a topic, collect,
generate, and evaluate evidence, and establish a position on the topic in a concise manner. Its purpose is
to organize and present your well-reasoned conclusions in order to persuade the audience to accept—or
at least seriously consider—your point of view.
Both types of writing attempts to convince readers, but they use different methods:
Persuasion appeals to readers’ emotions to make them believe something or take specific action.
Persuasion can also use logic and evidence. Argumentation on the other hand relies on logic
andevidence to build a case for a specific claim. It de-emphasizes appeals to emotion.
Literary Devices
are tools used by writers to hint at larger themes, ideas, and meaning in a story or piece of
writing.
Simile
two unrelated objects are being compared to each other with the use of the word ‘’like’’ or
‘’as’’` helps your reader or listener visualize, understand, and have a better conception of the
qualit of the nouns being compared.
Methapor
a statement in which two objects, often unrelated, are compared to each other ‘’this tree is the god of
the forest’’
Imagery
It engages the senses to deepen the reader’s comprehension of what is happening and how to feel about
it.
Auditory- hear
Tactile- what we touch or feel
Visual- we see
Olfactory – smell
Gustatory – taste
Symbolism
Used symbols that can be words, people, marks, location, or abstract ideas to represent
something beyond the literal meaning
Personification
A figure speech in which an idea or thing is given human attributes and/or feelings or spoken of
as if it were human.
Sound Devices
special tools the poet can use to ceate certain effects in the poem to convey and reinforce
meaning through sound.
Rhyme
The matching vowel sounds at the end of words or lines
Repetition
The repeating of an words, phrases, sentence or lines within a poem
Assonance
A repetition of vowel sounds within words
Alliteration
The repetition of the consonant sounds at the beginning of words
Onomatopoeia
Uses words which imitate the natural sounds of things
Adjective and Adverbs words used to describe nouns
What kind? Which one? How many?
Types of Adjectives
Descriptive
Describe the characteristic of a noun
Quantitative
Descibe the exact or amount of a noun
Demonstrative
Answer the question which one
Adverbs
An adverb is a word that modifies or describes a verb
Adverbs of manner
Describes how and in what way the action of a verb is carried out. Most adverbs of manner end in –
ly such as badly, happily, sadly, slowly, quickly, and others that include well, hard and fast.
Adverb of Frequency
Describes definite frequency is one such as weekly/every week, daily/every day, or yearly/every
year, etc.
Adverb of Place
describe where an action takes place
Adverb of degree
describe to what extent an action is performed.
Adverb of time
describe when an action takes place
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