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Literature LCC WGU 7
Literature-Notes Chapter 7
Question | Answer |
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Travelogue | |
Essay | A moderately brief prose discussion of a restricted topic |
Personal Essay | A kind of informal essay, with an intimate style, autobiographical content or interest, and an urbane conversational manner |
Expository Essay (Exposition) | One of the four chief types of composition, its purpose is to explain something (argumentation, description, and narration) |
Argumentative Essay (Argument) | A statement summarizing the plot or stating the meaning of a long poem or occasionally of a play |
Autobiography | the story of a person's life as written by that person |
Memoir | a form of autobiographical writing dealing usually with the recollections of one who has been a part of or has witnessed significat events |
Journal | A form of autobiographical writing including a day-by-day account of events and a record of personal impressions. |
Translation | refers to all of the ways in which we switch from one context to another, and, of course, from one language to another |
Dialects | specific forms of a language possess their own pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar we call these languages _________. |