Match the description to the term. 1 . nonfiction serious nonfiction writing meant to inform or convince
2 . essai comma, semicolon, colon
3 . genre French word for essay
4 . interrupters often humorous
5 . formal essay gives ideas or opinions to be proven
6 . thesis statement form or type of literature
7 . fiction Thurber and Emerson
8 . linking marks period, question mark, exclamation point
9 . end marks Addison and Steele
10 . English essayists comma, dash
11 . American essayists made up; not real
12 . informal essay factual
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informal essay
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25 ! which three lines in this excerpt from phillis wheatley's poem "goliath of gath" contain examples of figurative language? the hosts on two opposing mountains stood, thick as the foliage of the waving wood; between them an extensive valley lay, o'er which the gleaming armour pour'd the day, when from the camp of the philistine foes, dreadful to view, a mighty warrior rose; in the dire deeds of bleeding battle skill'd,

How many stanzas does this poem have, shall i compare thee to a summer day?

Read the passage first of all if someone says your dream is impossible, they’re wrong. you can’t prove that something is impossible-all you know is that[it] hasn’t been done yet. people said no one could scale mount everest but in 1953, sir edmund hilary and tenzing norway gazed down upon the world from it’s summit. people said that man could not fly, but in 1903, orville and wilbur wright made the first sustained powered flight in a heavier-than-air machine. people said, “okay, we admit that someone could climb mount everest, and we admit that man has learned to fly, but no one will ever, ever walk on the face of the moon.” if we can send three men a quarter of a million miles away and bring them home safely, is there any great task we cannot accomplish? which identifies the textual evidence that best supports the claim: the authors purpose is to persuade? a: the author shares historical information about the wright brothers. b: the author states that men have walked the moon. c: the author states that others who think your dreams are impossible are wrong. d: the author wants to know what tasks we cannot accomplish.