Match each excerpt with the type of essay it represents. descriptive essay narrative essay expository essay persuasive essay Essay Excerpt Type of Essay When Hal arrives at the pond, a bleak sight greets him as he discovers the surface of the skating pond is layered with snow. Realizing he is facing a monumental task, he industriously begins to shovel the mounds of new snow from the frozen pond. Lifting shovelful after shovelful of heavy wet snow, Hal tirelessly works. While he works, he dreams of his brilliant future as a magnificent hockey star. Soon a massive pile of glistening snow begins to appear on the bank, and the icy surface of the pond is smooth glass. Hal’s back and arms ache as he eagerly exchanges his work boots for an old, worn pair of hockey skates. arrowRight Potter's Lake used to be the nicest lake in the area. But these days the water is green with algae, and the lake is choked with weeds all summer long. As a result, people can no longer swim in it. Experts have determined the cause of the problem. Fertilizers from yards and farms have been running into the lake. They cause algae and weeds to grow out of control. They also kill birds and fish. arrowRight A hard, gray mountain loomed over a serene, florescent-blue lake, which gently lapped at its granite base. Miles above the lake, a trio of mountain peaks jutted into the sky. Each seemed to be topped with a chilled scoop of vanilla ice cream. As a cold and distant Sun crept over the peaks, the lake and valley below instantly became suffused with blue light, which seemed to touch everything but warm nothing. Morning had arrived. arrowRight Since 1897, the population of the Bachman's warbler in North Carolina has decreased from more than 500,000 to fewer than 100. The main reason is the destruction of areas (like Asbury Woodlands) that the bird uses for its natural breeding grounds. Bachman's warblers prefer thickly wooded swamps and wet thickets in heavy, full-grown forests. It’s there that they can build their nests and feed on insects. This fact does not mean that we cannot build a community theater. We simply must not build it in Asbury Woodlands. After all, our community has forever prided itself on caring for our natural surroundings. With the council’s help and the support of our townspeople, future generations will be able to continue to appreciate the beauty of this little bird arrowRight

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with mrs. linde, nora reveals her insensitivity and lack of shame about the forgery she committed. she implies that mrs. linde has obviously aged since they last met 10 years earlier, which accounts for nora’s inability to recognize her old friend. although nora seems sympathetic to mrs. linde’s plight, she can’t seem to control herself from boasting about her three children, her husband’s recent promotion, and how good she feels to finally have some money to spend. in a way, she seems to be flaunting her good fortune in front of mrs. linde who, deprived of all these benefits, has come to ask nora for . it is also through her interactions with mrs. linde that we realize something deeper lies under nora’s seemingly childish exterior. she reveals the secret of her forgery to mrs. linde and seems to see herself as quite resourceful for having done it.

in the company of dr. rank, nora is freer than she is with her own husband. she openly laughs with joy at knowing that all the other bank employees will be under her husband’s control. she offers dr. rank a macaroon, apparently forgetting that he knows she is forbidden to eat them. she then quickly covers for herself by claiming that mrs. linde brought them. nora seems much more assertive and free with these other characters, as well as unabashedly willing to scheme, lie, and justify her transgressions as altruistic.  

krogstad provides an interesting parallel to nora. like nora, he too is guilty of committing forgery, for which torvald condemns him and decides to fire him. although krogstad is a man and nora a woman, their crimes of forgery unite them. in fact, krogstad might represent what nora would be like if she were a man and were not strictly scrupulous like her husband is. for example, she tells mrs. linde that "a barrister's profession is such an uncertain thing, especially if he won't undertake unsavoury cases; and naturally torvald has never been willing to do that." perhaps nora would have delved into the unsavory, given how opposite she is to her husband. krogstad's is also the only harsh voice of reality that nora is forced to hear, and that is because he blackmails her for her regaining his job at the bank. finally, torvald’s reaction to krogstad’s forgery seems to foreshadow his harsh and cold reaction to nora’s forgery.

both are bitter over their mistake