Question: formal essay

Answer: serious nonfiction writing meant to inform or convince

Question: linking marks

Answer: comma, semicolon, colon

Question: essai

Answer: French word for essay

Question: informal essay

Answer: often humorous

Question: thesis statement

Answer: gives ideas or opinions to be proven

Question: genre

Answer: form or type of literature

Question: American essayists

Answer: Thurber and Emerson

Question: end marks

Answer: period, question mark, exclamation point

Question: English essayists

Answer: Addison and Steele

Question: interrupters

Answer: comma, dash