Lesson 2.9 - THE LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY
By the end of this lesson you will be able to:
1. brainstorm a literary text (poem or short story) for ideas and evidence with which to prepare an essay outline;
2. confidently organize ideas, information and evidence into a 5 paragraph literary analysis essay.
This page contains all the lectures for this lesson.
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10 Points - Literary Analysis Essay
.1. Write in the third person.
2. You need a clear thesis that can be opposed by others
3. Start with a good "hook" to draw in the reader (a quote, a statistic, an anecdote, a question etc)
4. Choose a meaningful title
5. Brainstorm an outline
6. Select quotations from the text that will support your points
7. "Be sure to avoid plot summaries" in your essay and write in the "literary present tense"
8. Be sure each point in your essay supports the Thesis and remind the reader of that fact in the conclusion of each Body Paragraph
9. Summarize your thesis and main arguments in the conclusion using different words
10. Make your last sentence a meaningful SO WHAT statement
UPLOAD YOUR DRAFT HERE
Select any one of the short stories or poems you like from our course and draft a Literary Analysis Essay on one of the following topics:
CHOOSE ONE
(1) What details in the story suggest internal and external conflict for the protagonist? OR
(2) What assumptions about gender roles are revealed by the characters in the story? OR
(3) What theme is developed through the relationship between any two characters in the story? OR
(4) Analyze how diction (language: words and phrases) is used to create emotion in the story; OR
(5) Analyze how the setting affects the plot and mood of the story OR
(6) Any other TOPIC such as "coming of age" ; "family relationships" etc stated clearly in your thesis.
This is the marking Rubric for the Literary Analysis Essay
UPLOAD YOUR FINAL REVISED ESSAY HERE. PLEASE REVIEW THE 10-POINTS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT
10 Points - Literary Analysis Essay
.1. Write in the third person.
2. You need a clear thesis that can be opposed by others
3. Start with a good "hook" to draw in the reader (a quote, a statistic, an anecdote, a question etc)
4. Choose a meaningful title
5. Brainstorm an outline
6. Select quotations from the text that will support your points
7. "Be sure to avoid plot summaries" in your essay and write in the "literary present tense"
8. Be sure each point in your essay supports the Thesis and remind the reader of that fact in the conclusion of each Body Paragraph
9. Summarize your thesis in the conclusion using different words
10. Make your last sentence a meaningful SO WHAT statement
Read the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost as well as the literary essay entitled ESSAY: Mending Wall. which can be downloaded here.
With a partner in a Breakout Room discuss the structure and organization highlighted in colour [HOOK, THESIS, IDEAS, SO WHAT?] as you read the Literary Essay together refer back to the poem. Notice that the essay is written in the 3rd person and the "literary present tense.,"
Each of you should make brief notes about what you learn as you review this Literary Essay and upload to MoodleRESPONSE
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