Question

An essay is

a. a subgenre of fiction in which authors tend to employ experimental techniques.
b. a poetic and often dramatic type of writing that can sometimes lack coherence due to its freedom from logical structure.
c. a type of nonfiction writing in which the author makes deliberate style, structure, and diction choices to support a thesis.
d. a nonstylized and completely factual form of nonfiction in which the author's voice and style are completely absent.

Answer 1

An essay is C. a type of nonfiction writing in which the author makes deliberate style, structure, and diction choices to support a thesis.
You can easily deduce that A and B are incorrect, because an essay is not fiction, and it is not poetic. D is also incorrect because an essay is not completely factual - the whole sentence is incorrect.