Essey unit review

Satire

A writing that holds up to ridicule weaknesses and wrongdoings

The Wings of Orville

Author: E.B. White, Thesis statement: Sometimes you try do something just to show that it can be done without a practical result

The Death of a Tree

Author: Edwin Way Teale, Thesis statement: To describe the process of a great white oak dying and how it affects humans

Why Do We Believe that the Earth Is Round

Author: George Orwell, Thesis statement: Most of everything we know comes from a higher authority

My Career as a Quarterback

Author: George Plimpton, Thesis statement: Without talent you can't make it in professional sports

How to Name a Dog

Author: James Thurber, Thesis statement: To entertain you with stories of how to name a dog

The Basketball Game

Author: MacKinlay Kantor, Thesis statement: He recalls fondly basketball of the past and compares it negatively to today's coaching style

The Great French Duel

Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), Thesis statement: To satirise a french duel and french society

Fable

Brief story that usually states the moral at the end, and in which the characters are usually animals

Moral

Practical lesson from a fable

Jargon

Special language shared bay a special group of people

Thesis statement

The point that the essayist is trying to make

Simile

a comparison between two unlike things using words of comparison

Autobiography

a person's account of his or his own life

Metaphor

direct comparison between two unlike things without using words of comparison