Full Question:
A serious or witty composition meant to briefly express ideas, views, feelings, or reactions to situations in life is an _____.
A) ephemeral
B) an editorial
C) an essay.
Answer:
The correct answer is C) An Essay.
Explanation:
An essay may also be defined as an analytic or interpretative literary composition usually dealing with its subject from a limited or personal point of view or a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject, usually in prose and generally analytic, speculative, or interpretative.
The purpose of an essay is to
- present an argument
- dialogue in a monologue. Unlike a spoken argument, where two speakers might debate presenting their various points and pieces of evidence, an essay is, in a sense, a one-way argument. Your reader doesn’t have the opportunity to ask you to clarify your points, nor to present their own points against yours.
- Most essays will require you to do some description of the way things are or were, and some analysis of why things happened, how they could be done better, as well as the interrelationship between various factors.
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