Types of Essays
Division and Classification
Compare and Contrast
The Writing Process
Literary Devices
100
Whenever you recount an event or tell a story or an anecdote to illustrate an idea, you are using?
Narration
100
Breaking down a single large unit into smaller subunits
Division
100
Presenting two or more subjects, considering them together, and showing what ways they are alike.
Comparison
100
Taking the time to think about the key components of your essay before you actually begin to write.
Planning
100
A comparison using like or as
Simile
200
This type of essay probably makes you think of disagreements and disputes.
Argumentative
200
Placing individual items into established categories
Classification
200
Showing how things differ
Contrast
200
Normally a sentence that expresses the main idea of a paper.
Thesis statement
200
Using human traits to describe non-human things
Personification
300
This type of essay asks you to evaluate your options and arrive at a decision.
Comparison and Contrast
300
Horror, Fantasy, Mystery, Science Fiction
Genres
300
The information about one subject is gathered and followed by comparable information about the second subject
Block comparison
300
After gathering all of the information you will need for your essay, this process keeps your ideas together.
Organizing
300
When the author hints at events to come
Foreshadowing
400
This type of essay asks you to take things apart and group things together.
Division and Classification
400
Sanguine, Melancholic, Choleric, Phlegmatic
Four Personality Types
400
The author starts by comparing both subjects in terms of a particular point, moves on to a second point and compares both subjects
Point-by-point comparison
400
The end of final part of your paper.
Conclusion
400
A series of words in quick succession that all start with the same letter or sound.
Alliteration
500
This type of essay asks you to determine the author's purpose and support it with textual evidence.
Literary analysis
500
Pie chart
500
A special form of comparison that helps readers understand difficult subjects.
Analogy
500
This step includes strategies like reading your paper aloud, getting a classmate to read your paper, or scanning for grammar and spelling errors.
Revision or Editing
500
A passing or indirect descriptive reference to something.
Allusion