| A | B |
|---|
| Non-fiction | “Prose writing that deals with real people |
| Exposition/expository writing | ”purpose to explain |
| Personal expression | ”purpose to emphasize personal feelings of the writer, answers the questions how or what does the writer feel or think about this? |
| personal essay | much shorter than a formal dissertation and based in the author's point of view |
| Persuasion | ”purpose to get the reader to believe or do something |
| Objective | writer screens out any feelings and simply conveys facts |
| Subjective | writer freely reveals his/her own opinions as well as facts |
| Introduction | purpose is to catch the reader's attention |
| Conclusion | purpose to bring piece to close |
| main idea | ”message opinion or idea the writer wants to communicate |
| audience | ”type of reader who will read a piece of writing” |
| tone | ”attitude the writer takes toward an audience |
| memoirs | a story that relates to one part of a writer's life |
| autobiography | a story about a person's life, written by that person |
| biography | a story about a person's life, written by someone else |
| imagery | author's use of descriptive language to create a picture in the reader's mind |
| symbolism | people, places and things used to represent something/someone else |
| details | use of statistics, examples, definitions and anecdotrs |
| anecdote | short, true story used as an example |
| setting | time and place in which events occur |
| thesis | a sentence used to express the main idea of the essay |
| topic sentence | a sentence used to express the main idea of a paragraph |
