An effective introduction always begins with an engaging hook. \u00a0The hook starts a conversation with the reader in a way that is interesting and appropriate to the writing. \u00a0A good hook demonstrates that you know your audience and that you understand what they care about. Most importantly, it makes the reader want to keep reading. \u00a0A good hook prepares the reader to absorb the nitty-gritty details, facts, statistics and quotations that will be a big part of your text and evidence-based essay, and it does it in a way that motivates the reader to want to go down this path with you.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
A good hook shouldn\u2019t be rushed. \u00a0A lot of writers want to get right into the facts and figures; they want to present the argument or thesis immediately. \u00a0They basically want to \u201canswer the question\u201d quickly so that they can get on with finishing the essay and move on to other things. \u00a0The problem with this approach is that it can sometimes seem too formal, too rushed or even dull. Additionally, the hook is a great place to some length and \u201cheft\u201dto your essay. \u00a0Some writers complain that their compositions are too short. Well, the hook is one place where you can beef the essay up a little.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
As an additional bonus, the hook is one place in your essay where you can get a little creative, literary even. \u00a0Here\u2019s something to remember, if it was fun to write your hook, it will be fun for your reader to read your hook. Of course, the length of the introduction\u2019s hook does depend on how much time you have to finish your essay. \u00a0Timed essays and short responses will have shorter and more quickly created hooks than essays that are written over the course of several days.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Type of essay: <\/strong>response to literature \u201cI know only one duty, and that is to love\u201d. \u00a0Such sentiments as these spoken by Albert Camus remind the reader that as St. Valentine’s Day approaches, one cannot help but contemplate not only the act of being in love, but also how to best express one\u2019s love in the most effective way. \u00a0Failing in this regard is not an option, as the consequences might prove awkward, embarrassing or even painful. For this reason, people prone to romance have for centuries studied and emulated love poetry written by the masters in an attempt to uncover the secrets of truly expressive and convincing declarations of infatuation and amour. Pablo Neruda, Percy Shelley and Emily Bronte, to name a few have provided the world with romantic love poem templates that have most assuredly been nicked by the lovelorn for decades. \u00a0There are so many fabulous examples that it seems quite odd that anyone would resort to mimicking verse that casts dispersions or even insults towards one\u2019s lover.<\/span> That\u2019s what makes William Shakespeare\u2019s Sonnet 130 and Rodgers and Hart\u2019s \u201cMy Funny Valentine\u201d so very interesting. \u00a0These two very popular, but very unlikely expressions of love can be compared in a number of intriguing \u00a0ways.<\/span> Both works are notable in that they seem to…<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\n A good hook demonstrates that you know your audience and that you understand what they care about. Most importantly, it makes the reader want to keep reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[201,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8532"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8595,"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8532\/revisions\/8595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.essaypop.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The Prompt: <\/strong>Sonnet 130 (My Mistress\u2019s Eyes) and \u201cMy Funny Valentine\u201d are two comparable literary expressions of love. \u00a0In a multiple-paragraph essay, discuss how these two works, despite being being very different forms written in very different eras, handle themes surrounding love.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n