ESSAY: ILLUSTRATIVE COMPOSITION Write an illustrative paper. Use either the point-by-point or extended (block) method.

Here is your goal for this assignment:

Write an illustrative essay.

Write a composition of at least 500 words, using the illustrative pattern. You may use example, definition, comparison or contrast, details, or any combination of these in your paper. You may use either the pendulum or the extended (block) method.

You may use one of these suggested topics or one of your own:

How dogs communicate with humans
How knowing English can help people
How advertisements affect people
How crime can be eliminated
If your topic requires research support, remember to document your source(s) properly, using MLA format.

Your essay will be graded based on the following:

your attention to the instructions given above
correct demonstration of an illustrative composition
word count as stated in the instructions
use of proper punctuation, spelling, grammar, and sentence construction (commonly called "conventions"), and appropriate length

You don't have to do the essay, I just want a starter to get my creative juices flowing.

Making an inference means filling in a text's missing information using context clues; drawing a conclusion means analyzing the story's ending. true or false? true false the inference statement is true, but the conclusion statement is false. the conclusion statement is true, but the inference statement is false.

"the children's hour" by henry wadsworth longfellow between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the children's hour. i hear in the chamber above me the patter of little feet, the sound of a door that is opened, and voices soft and sweet. from my study i see in the lamplight, descending the broad hall stair, grave alice, and laughing allegra, and edith with golden hair. a whisper, and then a silence: yet i know by their merry eyes they are plotting and planning together to take me by surprise. a sudden rush from the stairway, a sudden raid from the hall! by three doors left unguarded they enter my castle wall! they climb up into my turret o'er the arms and back of my chair; if i try to escape, they surround me; they seem to be everywhere. they almost devour me with kisses, their arms about me entwine, till i think of the bishop of bingen in his mouse-tower on the rhine! do you think, o blue-eyed banditti, because you have scaled the wall, such an old mustache as i am is not a match for you all! i have you fast in my fortress, and will not let you depart, but put you down into the dungeon in the round-tower of my heart. and there will i keep you forever, yes, forever and a day, till the walls shall crumble to ruin, and moulder in dust away! which literary device does longfellow use most frequently in the poem? a. simile b. metaphor c. repetition d. personification

Which of the following events of the story actual occurs first in the sequence of events