11 Ways to Introduce an Essay

1) BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

ex: In ''Occurence at Owl's Creek'', Bierce took a southern perspective even if he was a northern soldier.


2) QUOTATION

ex: ''No, I'm not mad...'' So begins Poe's ''Tell-Tale Heart'' with an insane narrator trying to convince the readert that he's sane.


3) DEFINITION

ex: According to the dictionnary, poetic justice means that good is rewarded and evil is punished.


4) LITTERARY ELEMENT

ex: Imagery is a powerful way to express feeling and emotion in the ''Nightingale'' story by Oscar Wilde.


5) LIFE EXPERIENCE

ex: Ernest Hemingway had lots of problems communicating with women, which reflects in the ''Hills'' story.

History of Poetry

CENTURY: 14th century
PERIOD: Medieval
WRITER: Chaucer
GENRES: Poetic tales
THEMES: Courly love and religion using comedy, irony and satire


CENTURY: 15th century
WRITERS: Mainly anonymous, they're mainly clerics
GENRES: Ballads and folk songs
THEMES: History and religion

CENTURY: 16th century
PERIOD: Elizabethan era
WRITER: William Shakespeare
GENRES: Poetry and drama
THEMES: Idealized love, passion, beauty and virtue oftenly inspired from mythology

CENTURY: 17th century
PERIOD: Late Renaissance
WRITERS: John Donne and John Milton
GENRES: Metaphysical and smooth, rhytmic poetry
THEMES: Science, knowledge and humanity's relationship with God

CENTURY: 18th century
PERIOD: Age of Reason
WRITERS: Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray
GENRES: Novel and essays
THEMES: Rationality and philosophy