Reading Persuasive Materials

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1. Frenchmen was the first author to describe his work as essays; he used the term to
characterize these as “attempts” to put his thoughts adequately into writing.
2. A leading essayist, gives guidance on the subject. He notes that “like the novel, the
essays is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything,
usually on a certain topic.
3. These essays, the authors “do not speak directly of themselves, but turn their
attention outward to some literary or scientific or political theme”.
4. These use “fragments of reflective autobiography to look at the world through the
keyhole of anecdote and description”.
5. These essays “make the best of all the three worlds in which it is possible for the
essay to exist”.
6. Serves to communicate an idea to a large number of people in a attempt to
convince them to take certain action
7. Describes in a printed medium such as newspaper, magazine or related journal.
This encompasses everything form media with a very broad readership base, such
as a major.
8. An editorial is an article that express the opinion of the person who or
organization that wrote it.
9. Where the author lumps together odds and ends of information, a poem here, an
announcement there, a pointed paragraph, a modernized proverb, a joke, or
interesting quotation
10. Caters to the inherent interest of human beings in human beings. The society
columnists chronicle here the facts and foibles of the great and near great, the
social climbers, and the true celebrities.
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Key Answers

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1. Michael de Montaigne
2. Aldous Huxley
3. Objective and factual
4. Personal and the autobiographical essays
5. Abstract universal
6. Advertisement
7. Press advertising
8. Editorial Column
9. The Hodge-podge column
10. The Gossip column