Which part of the text does each statement refer to?

#1. You may need to change a word because it may be wrong for the context in which you have placed it. (…)

#2. A knowledge of how to write well is a skill that students have to work to develop. (…)

#3. Planning an outline for your essay reduces the risk of leaving out some really important fact or argument. (…)

#4. Choosing the right word often depends on knowing how to detect the wrong word. (…)

#5. Introduction should state the essay’s main idea. (…)

1. A knowledge of how to write well is not something that comes naturally. It is a skill that students have to work to develop.

2. It seems logical that before you try to put a jigsaw puzzle together you should have a good idea what the shape of the finished product will be. This is also true when it comes to writing an essay.

3. Before you spend time writing a revising, you should decide what it is you are trying to create. Planning an outline for your essay gives you a basic structure from which to work.

4. Planning an outline for your essay helps you sort out the main ideas and the important details you will need to explain or illustrate or develop these ideas. It also reduces the risk of leaving out some really important fact or argument.

5. Introduction makes the first impression of your writing. It should state the essay’s main idea or theses statement which is called the controlling idea.

6. The controlling idea is what tells your readers what the essay they are reading will be about. The introduction should present general facts or ideas that will orient your readers to your essay’s subject.

7. Choosing the right words in your sentences will help you to communicate your ideas to your readers accurately and effectively.

8. Often, however, choosing the right word while writing your essay depends on knowing how to detect the wrong word.

9. You may need to change a word because you have already overused it in your essay, or because it turns out not to mean exactly what you thought it meant.

10. You may have to change a word because it may be wrong for the context in which you have placed it, perhaps too formal or informal for that context. A good sense of how to use words is a skill that every writer should develop.

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Which part of the text does each statement refer to?

#1. The speaker, or the poet, is often the main character of a poem. (…)

#2. Literary characters do not exist alone in space. (…)

#3. A plot is built around a series of events that take place within a definite period of time. (…)

#4. A good writer tries to balance the elements of literary work in order to create a unified work of art. (…)

#5. Writers describe actions or ideas and also the characters. (…)

1. Almost every literary work includes four elements: characters, plot, theme or statement and style. A good writer tries to balance these elements in order to create a unified work of art.

2. Characters. Writers may want to describe actions or ideas. But they must also describe the characters – the persons or objects – affected by these actions or ideas. The characters make up the central interest of many dramas and novels, as well as biographies and autobiographies.

3. Even a poem is concerned with characters. The speaker, or the poet, is often the main character of a poem. Writers must know their characters thoroughly and have a clear picture of each one’s looks, speech, and thoughts.

4. Setting is the place in which a character’s story occurs. Literary characters, like the persons who read about them, do not exist alone in space. They act and react with one another.

5. Characters also respond to the world in which they live. Setting is another way of showing people. If Tom lived in England and David in Missouri, they would become different people as they responded to and acted within their surroundings.

6. Plot tells what happens to the characters in a story. A plot is built around a series of events that take place within a definite period of time. No rules exist for the order in which the events are presented.

7. A unified plot has a beginning, a middle, and an end. That is, an author leads us from somewhere (a character with a problem), through somewhere (the character overcoming or being overcome by the problem).

8. In literary terms, we speak of a story having an exposition, a rising action, a climax, and a denouement, or outcome.

9. The exposition gives the background and situation of the story. The rising action builds upon the given material. It creates suspense, or reader’s desire to find out what happens next.

10. The climax is the highest point of interest. The denouement ends the story.

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