The word "Essay" means attempt.So an essay must always be the attempt of the writer to express his own thoughts , ideas and feelings.
TYPES OF ESSAY
It is not at all important how essays are classified.Usually there are five types of essays.These are as under.
i. NARRATIVE ESSAYS: A "Narrative Essay" is concerned mainly with the narration of some events.It covers history,biography, a legend or story or an current event.
ii. DESCRIPTIVE ESSAYS: A "Descriptive Essay"consist of descriptions of some natural object, animate or in-animate, some country, place or object of interest as a library, fort, a ship etc.
iii. REFLECTIVE ESSAYS: A "Reflective Essay" deal with the topics of abstract thing which can be felt like beauty, love , truthfulness, social, or political topics, and philosophical or religious subjects.
iv. EXPOSITORY ESSAYS: In such a type of essays , the writer should substantiate his arguments by suitable references, parallel quotations, example and quotations etc.
v. IMAGINATIVE ESSAYS : These deal with topics which are the result of thinking of its writer's mind.It includes travel accounts where imagination of the author has a part to play.
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