3B.  Essay ~a short piece of writing on a specific topic.  Types of essays:  Narrative ~tells a story  Informative ~gives information  Persuasive.

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3B

 Essay ~a short piece of writing on a specific topic.  Types of essays:  Narrative ~tells a story  Informative ~gives information  Persuasive ~persuades the reader to think differently or take a specific action

 Highly descriptive showing language  Contains a specific setting  Contains characters  Contains action that narrates an event or series of events

 Sensory details – words that appeal to the senses (sight, smell, sound, taste, or touch).  Colorful modifiers – adjectives or adverbs that give vivid details.  Action words – verbs that show specific, vivid action.  Broken bottles, rotting fast-food containers, and rusting tin cans littered the bank of the eerily silent, polluted pond. Slimy green algae blanketed parts of the shore, and putrid, foul- smelling mud oozed around our shoes.

 Rewrite the following sentences using descriptive language.  She made a nice frosting for the cake.  They played badly in the first five minutes.  I walked slowly up the hill.  The old woman walked slowly to her car with heavy bags.

 Which of the following is written in narrative mode?  Which of the following is composed in narrative mode?  Which of the following sentences continues the narrative mode of the paragraph?  Which of the following is the appropriate and effective introduction for a narrative essay on this topic?  Which statement, if used to replace sentence 2, improves the narrative?

 Which statement below correctly evaluates how the addition of the proposed sentences will affect the narrative excerpt?  Which statement correctly evaluates why the proposed sentences fail to continue the narrative mode of the student’s essay?  Justify the decision whether or not to include the proposed sentences by selecting the statement below that is an accurate evaluation of the effect of the proposed sentences on the narrative.

 Tone  Trepidation  Employing

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