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The document discusses the umbrella paragraph structure for essays. It should have a generalization as the topic sentence rather than listing specific points. The paragraph uses quotes and examples from the text to support the main idea. Quotes should be introduced, presented exactly with page numbers, and commented on in context. The conclusion restates the author's name, title, and analyzes the overall work.
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Another good skill to help you incorporate research into your writing is summarizing. Summarizing is to take larger selections of text and reduce them to their basic essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. Think of a summary as the “general idea in brief form”; it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions and main ideas.
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Fiction refers to imaginary stories, both realistic and unrealistic, told through prose. Early forms of fiction include fairy tales about supernatural characters and fables where animals can talk. Modern fiction is dominated by novels, a form that arrived in English in the 18th century and has key elements like setting, characters, plot, theme, and point of view. Novels can be social, domestic, historical, autobiographical, epistolary, stream-of-consciousness, science fiction, terrifying, or detective fiction. Short stories are also a form of narrative prose but are typically shorter works that cover less time and space than novels. Both novels and short stories should have a beginning, middle, end and follow basic story structure
The Five Moves of Analysis(aka The Most Important Thing You Will.docx
The Five Moves of Analysis
(aka The Most Important Thing You Will Ever Learn)
1. Suspend Judgment: Set aside your likes and dislikes, your agreeing or disagreeing. Say to yourself, “What I find most interesting here is...”.
2. Notice and Focus: Simply put, pay close attention to details. “What do you notice?” What is significant/interesting/revealing/ strange. Slow down and take your time here. Don’t jump to interpretations before you’ve exhausted the details. Uncertainty is good.
3. Look for Patterns: Start sifting through the text looking for Repetitions, Strands, Binaries, and Anomalies.
Repetitions: sheep dog in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
Strands: Animals in "How to Talk to a Hunter," alcohol in "Sonny's Blues"
Binaries: Light/Dark in "Sonny's Blues," young/old in "One of Star Wars, One of Doom"
Anomalies: Mysterious notebook in "One of Star Wars, One of Doom," tin of chocolates with Santa Claus "fondling" children painted on it in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
4. Make the Implicit Explicit: Explain to the reader what the details or the patterns imply. Explain your thought process. Pull out the implications and show them why you think they are “folded in” to the meaning of the text or image. What does this mean and So What? Why is it important?
5. Keep Reformulating Questions and Explanations: What else might this detail or pattern mean? How else could it be explained? What details don’t fit my theory? Can I adjust my theory to better fit with this?
Prepping the Final Paper
Take a minute to re-read the assignment sheet for Paper 3. Then choose which prompt you would like to focus on for your paper. Once you have chosen your prompt, I would like you to go through the book and identify the scenes that you think link to your topic in an interesting way. Now…
1. List the scenes you have chosen, e.g. “Scene #1: The scene in which Oscar is taken into the cane and beaten.”
2. Carefully gather details from your chosen scenes. These should include both individual details you find interesting or bizarre, AND binaries, strands, repetitions, and anomalies. Use the skills we’ve practiced all quarter long to gather these. Write them down. For example, “Oscar’s hands are ‘seamless’ in the dream.’
3. Now spend some time pulling multiple implications out of as many details as you can. For instance, “Seamless hands = brand new, no history, no fingerprints so no traces, like a blank page.”
4. Choose your six juiciest, most interesting and analytically rich details and type them up in a list that includes implications.
5. Use your detail-analysis to develop a working thesis. This is your own analytical theory about what is going on in the scenes you’ve chosen. What have you uncovered and why is it significant? Write that thesis down.
My answer
1. Scene
#1: The scene in which Oscar’s dead at the beginning.
#2: The scene in which the narrator is not Yunior in chapter 2.
#3: Narrating the identity of Yunior.
#4: Using footn ...
essay of 1,700-1,900 words. Select and read one of the following .docx
essay of 1,700-1,900 words. Select and read one of the following stories in Ghost Stories of Henry James: “Sir Edmund Orme,” “The Friend of the Friends,” “The Real Right Thing,” or “The Third Person.” Then, using the essays by Patrick Brantlinger and Edmund Wilson as support, construct an argument in which you analyze James’ ability to innovate within the conventions of the ghost story you have selected. In other words, how is James able to challenge his readers and their expectations through his use of the genre of the ghost story? For example, you might focus on James’ use of ambiguity or irony or self-reference. Be as specific as possible. You will need to offer evidence from the story and essays, including several quotations from relevant passages, in order to prove your claim. A successful essay will begin with a thesis statement that explains how James’ innovation within the form of the ghost story works or plays out.
TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis
T Title Before you even think about reading the poetry or trying to analyze it, speculate on what
you think the poem might be about based upon the title. Often time, authors conceal
meaning and give clues in the title. Jot down what you think this poem will be about
P Paraphrase Before you begin thinking about meaning or trying to analyze the poem, don't overlook the
literal meaning of the poem. One of the biggest problems that students often make in
poetry analysis is jumping to conclusions before understanding what is taking place in the
poem. When you paraphrase a poem, write in your own words exactly what happens in
each line of the poem. Look at the number of sentences in the poem—your paraphrase
should have exactly the same number. This technique is especially helpful for poems
written in the 17th and 19th centuries that use language that is harder to understand.
C Connotation Although this term usually refers solely to the emotional overtones of word choice, for this
chart the term refers to any and all poetic devices, focusing on how such devices contribute
to the meaning, the effect, or both of a poem. You may consider imagery, figures of speech
(simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, etc), diction, point of view, and sound
devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, and rhyme). It is not necessary that you
identify all the poetic devices within the poem. The ones you do identify should be seen as
a way of supporting the conclusions you are going to draw about the poem.
A Attitude Having examined the poem's devices and clues closely, you are now ready to explore the
multiple attitudes that may be present in the poem. Examination of diction, images, and
details suggests the speaker's attitude and contributes to understanding. Think about the
tone of the poem and how the author has created it. Remember that usually the tone or
attitude cannot be named with a single word - think complexity.
S Shifts Rarely does a poem begin and end the poetic expe.
7P Phrases
The document discusses different types of phrases including verb phrases, prepositional phrases, adjective phrases, adverb phrases, appositive phrases, gerund phrases, infinitive phrases, and participial phrases. It provides examples and exercises to identify each type of phrase in sentences. Key details are highlighted about the structure and function of each phrase.
8P Introduction to Clauses
This document defines and provides examples of different types of clauses:
1) Clauses can be independent or subordinate, with independent clauses able to stand alone as a sentence and subordinate clauses providing modifying information.
2) Adjective clauses modify nouns, adverb clauses modify verbs or other clauses, and noun clauses function as subjects or objects.
3) Relative pronouns like "who", "that", and "which" often introduce adjective clauses, and subordinating conjunctions like "because", "when", and "if" often introduce adverb clauses.
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In Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," Sherlock Holmes proves himself a clever and memorable detective. Holmes uses his fantastic powers of observation to solve crimes and remain unforgettable to readers. For example, upon meeting Helen Stoner, Holmes immediately notices she came by train without being told, deducing this from a ticket stub in her glove. Conan Doyle's detective has remained popular for over a century due to his superior abilities to observe clues and solve crimes through admirable deduction.
Running Head Response Essay on A Good Man Is Hard to Find”3.docx
Running Head: Response Essay on “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” 3
Response Paper to “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
William “B” Secrist
20 November 2016
Responsive Essay on “A Good Man
If I had to choose the best short story out of all the ones I have read this week I would have to say “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” was the absolute best one. Typically, I am not much of a reader, but Flannery O’Connor’s “grim humor” is quite fascinating to me (224). Having read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” before, I was able to closely analyze the details in this short story as I read. Compared to the other short stories, O’Connor’s strategic use of foreshadowing, irony, and symbolism appealed to my interests the most.
Flannery O’Connor’s use of foreshadowing in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is subtle and entertaining to me as a reader. In fact, there are quite a few examples of foreshadowing throughout the story. The first example is when the grandmother, a round character, is discussing the Misfit in the beginning of the story. She tells her son Bailey, who is planning a family trip to Florida, that the Misfit has escaped a prison and is on the loose, headed towards Florida (224). The grandmother would rather go to Tennessee rather than Florida and uses this escaped prisoner as an excuse not to take that route. Ultimately, the family does start their trip towards Florida. Reading this, we now know the setting is somewhere on a route to Florida. Another example of foreshadowing O’Connor uses is when the narrator describes how the grandmother is dressed. The grandmother is dressed very nicely and places a significant article of clothing near her neckline. This is placed here so those people that “see her dead on the highway will know at once she is a lady, in case of an accident” (225). As we read along, we discover that the grandmother is eventually killed on the side of the roadway. The last example of foreshadowing I find gravely interesting is when the family passes “five or six graves” during their travel (225). This is signifying the fate of the six family members; the grandmother, her son, his wife, and their three children (six). I may not be much of a reader, but O’Connor’s stony humor is part of what makes this the best short story I have read this week.
What I find evermore amusing in “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” is the irony that O’Connor uses. In the beginning of the story, while trying to convince Bailey to take her route instead of his, the grandmother says she would not lead her family towards the path of a criminal (224). Even though they took her sons route, she ultimately led them astray where they ended up killed by that particular criminal. Additionally, the grandmother told a false story about an old house that had a hidden panel in it and her grandchildren wanted so badly to see it. The children pleaded to their father, Bailey, who ironically gave in by saying that was the “one and only time they would stop for someth ...
English1302Essay2InstructionsAnalysisofaThemeina
English 1302: Essay 2 Instructions
Analysis of a Theme in a Short Story
Write an analysis of a theme in one of the following short stories:
1. Tillie Olsen, “I Stand Here Ironing”
2. Amy Tan, “Two Kinds”
3. Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
4. William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”
5. Raymond Carver, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”
6. Eudora Welty, “A Worn Path”
• See the discussion of theme on pp. 128-131 in Making Literature Matter.
• Your thesis should reflect three points (aspects of theme) that you are going to focus on
in your paper. Another approach to thematic analysis is to illustrate three methods by
which an author develops a theme.
• Quote liberally from the short story (citing in-text, MLA style). Look up how to quote
short prose passages, as well as how to block longer passages of prose. Remember to
introduce each quote with an independent clause (followed by a colon); the
introduction to a quote provides you with an opportunity to state an opinion and make
clear why the quote is significant.
• You will need a works cited page (MLA format), in which you cite the short story.
• You are to use only TWO sources for this paper—the short story itself AND one peer-
reviewed article from a scholarly database from the HCCS Library Databases (such as
JSTOR, Academic Search Complete, or ProQuest). The article should be either a critique
of the short story or a discussion of themes in the works of the writer of that short story.
• Quote at least twice from the peer-reviewed article in your paper.
Length: 3 pages (minimum), double spaced, 12-point font, one-inch margins
Submit your paper electronically, in the Assignment link in the class site in Eagle Online
Canvas.
Your paper will be subject to a Turnitin Originality check. See the Scholastic Dishonesty policy
on the Syllabus for further information on what occurs when there are significant
matches detected by Turnitin to materials that are not documented as required.
Review of the 500-word theme:
I. Paragraph I—Introduction—100-125 words (or 5-12 sentences)
• Lead-in (mention the title of the work, the author’s name, and the date of
composition)
• Provide a brief synopsis (2-3 sentences, with the gist of the work)
• Thesis statement—list the points to be developed in the body of the paper
II. Paragraph 2—First Body Paragraph—100-125 words (or 5-12 sentences)
• Follow the topic sentence with support—and in a literary analysis, that means
quotations, quotations, quotations!
III. Paragraph 3—Second Body Paragraph—100-125 words (or 5-12 sentences)
• Follow the topic sentence with support—and in a literary analysis, that means
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IV. Paragraph 4—Third Body Paragraph—100-125 words (or 5-12 sentences)
• Follow the topic sentence with support—and in a literary analysis, that means
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A guide to writing the literary analysis essay
This document provides guidance on writing a literary analysis essay, including sections on the introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion. The introduction should catch the reader's interest and include background on the work and the theme. The thesis should relate to the overall theme and suggest how the author reveals it. Body paragraphs should each include a topic sentence, textual evidence, commentary, and clincher sentence to support the thesis. The conclusion restates the thesis and reflects on how the essay topic relates to the work as a whole.
Mo fairy tale essay
This document provides helpful tips for completing a persuasive essay assignment defending the villain in a fairy tale. It outlines the steps to take, including choosing a fairy tale and villain, thinking of three reasons for their defense, writing introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs, and finally assembling the full essay. The document offers guidance on developing a hook and thesis, using examples and details to explain claims, employing transitions between paragraphs, and proofreading the final submission.
Assignment RequirementsShakespeare’ HamletRequirements· M.docx
Assignment Requirements
Shakespeare’ Hamlet
Requirements:
· Must be a three-point enumeration paper
· Must be in MLA format
· Must be third-person pronouns (no second-person “you” or any of its forms. Do not use first-person pronouns, for example I, we, us, etc.) If you do not know your pronouns, look them up.
· Must be free of grammar and spelling mistakes. Pay attention to your spell and grammar check.
· Must have a central, controlling idea (argumentative thesis) and three main points that you will elaborate upon in the essay.
· Must be fully developed ideas
· Must use quotes from the play to support your points.
· Must have at least two outside sources to support your position/points, in addition to the quotes from the text itself.
· You may follow the example that I posted for the short story. It is a three-point enumeration also.
Hamlet Essay Topics
Below are possible essay topics that you might find helpful. You do not have to use these, but they may help you if you are struggling with finding a topic. Please remember that this is a three-point enumeration essay, and you need two outside, scholarly sources to support your argument, along with quotes from the text.
Topics:
I have posed the following topics in the form of a question because your response to the question will be the thesis statement. You would then find three points in the play that support your argument and develop those within the body of the essay.
· Does Hamlet’s inability to act and tendency toward melancholy reflect a tragic flaw that leads to his demise?
· How does Horatio’s steadfastness and loyalty contrast with Hamlet’s variability and excitability, although they both love learning, reason, and thought? Does this help define Hamlet’s personality for good or bad?
· How does Claudius’ lack of morals and ruthless ambition contrast against Hamlet’s always searching for the moral high ground before ever reacting to a situation? Would Hamlet’s moral character help make him a better king?
· Throughout the play, Hamlet claims to be feigning madness, but his portrayals of a madman is so intense and so convincing that many readers believe that Hamlet actually slips into insanity at certain moments in the play. Do you think this is true, or is Hamlet merely play-acting insanity?
· Think about Hamlet’s relationship with Ophelia. Is he justified in his ill treatment of her? Does he love her? Does he stop loving her? Did he ever love her? What evidence can you find in the play to support your opinion?
· How does Hamlet’s friendship with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern compare to his friendship with Horatio
· Analyze the use of descriptions and images in Hamlet. How does Shakespeare use descriptive language to enhance the visual possibilities of a stage production? How does he use imagery to create a mood of tension, suspense, fear, and despair?
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Paper Topics for Humanities 101 Essay Question # 1Pleas.docx
Paper Topics for Humanities 101 Essay Question # 1Please write
a 4 page (1250 minimum word count) essay on one of the
following papertopics . You must use evidence from the text to
back up your claims. A style sheet withfurther instructions about
the paper will be posted in the next few days. BE SURE TOREAD
THE STYLE SHEET IN ADDITION TO THE QUESTIONS
BELOW
.1. At the beginning of Book 16 of the Iliad, Patroklos comes in
tears to Achilles and theepic warrior describes his tearful friend in
terms of a young girl crying to her mother.Consider what this
simile says about Achilles’ view of his relationship to Patroklos
andconsider the other ways (metaphorical or not) in which their
relationship is described inthe books of the epic that you have read.
How do the descriptions of this relationshipdiffer from those
evoking Gilgamesh’s relationship to Enkidu? What is the
rhetoricalfunction of these descriptions in both epics? How are
they meant to characterize therelationships?
2. Both the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad demonstrate scenes of
intense mourning andfunereal ritual. Compare the rituals and
mourning for Enkidu’s death either to Achilles’and the Greeks’
response to Patroklos’ death (including Book 23 as well as Book
18) orto the mourning of the Trojans for Hektor (Books 22 and
24). Are there times whenmourning or the rituals of mourning
seem to violate other social expectations orconventions?
3. In many ways, the Iliad is a poem about men, warriors who fight
and die to gain glory.However, women also play an important part
in the poem, often as a contrast or foil tothe world of warfare.
Discuss this dramatic function of women (including
goddesses)and consider the ways that women are necessary to the
full articulation of the Iliad’svision of life and death. Consider at
least two of the following: 1)Hektor's encounterwith Andromache
in Book 6, 2) the mourning of Hecuba and Andromache in Book
22after Hektor's death, 3) Thetis as Achilles' mother, 4) the many
references to newlywedbrides in a hero's 'obituary' or 'epitaph' in
Homeric song. You may also make this acomparative paper and
contrast the dramatic function of women (and goddesses) in
theEpic Gilgamesh to their function in the Iliad.
4. Both the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad represent heroes in
quest of a form ofimmortality, whether as an actual state or
through song, art, and monument. In what waysdo these two epic
poems represent immortality as a desirable goal? Do the texts
questionthis goal?
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in Times 12 pt. Font, with 1 inch margins (approximately). Your paper shouldhave a
title and a word count in parentheses. Your name and student I.D. # should be inthe
upper right hand corner.3. Please proof read meticulously for spelling, grammar, and
syntax errors.4. P.
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The document provides information about short stories, including definitions, history, and elements of analysis. It begins with definitions of a short story, noting that a short story gives the illusion of life by capturing a moment or two in others' lives. It is under 40,000 words and can be read in one sitting. The history of the short story genre is then discussed, tracing its development in Germany, Russia, France, and the United States in the 19th century. Key elements of analyzing a short story are outlined, including plot, character, setting, atmosphere, and style. Strategies for reading a short story, such as multiple readings with different analytical lenses, are also presented.
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Core 168: LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY
Your first essay for the course will be a literary analysis essay. You will choose one primary text (one of the poems, stories, speeches, or memoirs) from our class reading so far and then focus your essay analyzing the text.
Your analysis must have:
· a worthwhile, interesting introduction leading to your thesis sentence (stating the focus/main point of the essay);
· a substantial body of paragraphs to support your analysis (at least 2-3 paragraphs);
· an interesting, relevant conclusion.
You will follow these steps of the writing process to write your essay. Each step will also earn you assignment credit. Your assignments will provide guidance for how to approach and perform a literary analysis. Also, included below are specific directions for HOW TO WRITE A LITERARY ANALYSIS ESSAY:
1. Read “How to Write a Literary Analysis Essay” (below in this document);
2. Choose a primary text of literature as your focus for the essay; (9/25/18)
3. Brainstorm regarding two different aspect of the text—the content (WHAT THE TEXT SAYS) and the literary devices (HOW THE TEXT SAYS WHAT IT SAYS). If you would like to use a recommended topic, you may do so, but you are also free to explore your own topic (9/27/18)
4. Determine WHAT is interesting and important about what happens in the text and make a statement about it. That statement is your thesis statement. (9/27/18)
5. Write an essay to support your thesis statement, using textual evidence (quotes from the primary text) to illustrate and provide examples of your thesis. (10/2/18)
6. Revise your essay for content and organization. (10/4/18)
7. Edit your essay for clarity and correctness.
8. Visit the Writing Center and do a peer review of your essay.
9. Proofread your essay before submitting it.
10. Submit your essay by the deadline of 10/10/18.
SUGGESTED/EXAMPLE TOPICS
· Examine Sherman Alexie’s poem “Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World”
· Examine how Nora Naranjo-Morse uses the legend/tradition of the coyote trickster in her poem “A Well Traveled Coyote”
· Analyze the coyote figure in any of the coyote texts from Native American Coyote Mythology
· Analyze Red Jacket’s rhetorical strategies he used in his speeches
· Examine how Black Elk uses descriptive details to evoke empathy for his people in Black Elk Speaks
· Analyze Lame Deers use of one or more of the following literary devices: simile/metaphor; circular storytelling; humor
· Analyze E. Pauline Johnson’s short story (fiction) “As It Was in the Beginning,” focusing on one or more of the following:
· 1st person point of view;
· the focus on skin color and how race is characterized in the text;
· the focus on womanhood, particularly Ester’s connection with her mother and how Ester uses the wisdom passed from her mother;
· the circularity of the story in terms of the beginning and end of the text and Ester’s return home;
· the significance of the snake;
· how Christian ideas of heaven and hell a.
Ewrt 30 class 13
This document provides an agenda and lecture materials for an English writing class. The agenda includes a discussion on labels, a lecture on eliminating passive voice, the seven basic genres of stories, and the seven basic plot structures. It then provides guidance for an in-class writing exercise applying the active voice to the seven genres and seven plots. The lecture materials define and provide examples of the passive voice and strategies for eliminating it. It also defines and provides examples of the seven common genres of stories and the seven basic plot structures according to Christopher Booker.
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Printable PDFGuidelines for Summarizing SourcesSummarizingAn.docx
Printable PDF
Guidelines for Summarizing Sources
Summarizing
Another good skill to help you incorporate research into your writing is summarizing. Summarizing is to take larger selections of text and reduce them to their basic essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. Think of a summary as the “general idea in brief form”; it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions and main ideas.
As with directly quoting and paraphrasing, summarizing requires you to cite your sources properly to avoid "accidental" plagiarism. moreover, a summary should not change the meaning of the original source. a good summary should be a shortened version that conveys the purpose and main points of the original source.
Components of a Good Summary:
· Write in the present tense.
· Make sure to include the author, the year, and title of the work.
· For Example:
· In Pixar’s 2003 movie, Finding Nemo…
· In Stephen King’s horror book The Shining (1977),…
· In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I Could Not Stop for Death (1890),”
· Be concise: a summary should not be equal in length to the original text; it should be about 1/10 as long.
· Include 2–3 main points of the text or work.
· Include the conclusion or the final findings of the work.
· Avoid using quotations. A summary is not a paraphrase or a direct quote. If you must use the author's key words or phrases, always enclose them in quotation marks and cite.
· Don't put your own opinions, ideas, or interpretations into the summary. The purpose of writing a summary is to accurately represent what the author wanted to say, not to provide a critique.
When Is a Summary Useful?
You should summarize when…
· you want to give an overview of a source's main ideas/points;
· you can express a source's ideas or points in fewer words than the original text;
· you need to give a brief synopsis of more than one source; or
· Read through your notes from the third reading, look up the words/phrases that you do not know, and make any appropriate changes to the information you jotted down.
· you want an authority on the topic to support your ideas.
Examples of Good and Bad Summaries
Be careful when you summarize that you avoid stating your opinion or putting a particular bias on what you write. This point is important because the goal of a summary is to be as factual as possible.
For example, here is an example of an inaccurate, opinion-laden summary about Pixar’s popular movie Finding Nemo:
So there's a film where a man's wife is brutally murdered by a serial killer and his son is left physically disabled. In a twist of events, the son is kidnaped and kept in a tank while his father chases the kidnapper thousands of miles with the help of a mentally challenged woman. Finding Nemo is quite the thriller.
This example is a bad summary because it is very vague, and it contains the writer’s opinion as well as twists the events of the story into .
Please write in the space provided and on the backs of these pages.
Please write in the space provided and on the backs of these pages. Choose two of the four essay questions, one for each play, supporting your argument with specific information from the play.
1. Moliere’s Tartuffe is a comedy, but was condemned and criticized by Seventeenth Century leaders of the Catholic Church. Please discuss specific examples of elements in the play you believe some audience members might consider unfunny, offensive and worthy of condemnation.
2. The complete title of Moliere’s most famous play is Tartuffe, ou l’Imposteur, or in English, Tartuffe, or the Imposter. But in the play, and in academic criticism, the title character is referred to as a hypocrite. Explain the difference between a hypocrite and an imposter, relating these ideas to Tartuffe, the character.
3. Discuss at least three symbols in A Doll’s House that Ibsen uses to illuminate the situation and/or the characters.
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Fiction (Novel + short stories)
Fiction refers to imaginary stories, both realistic and unrealistic, told through prose. Early forms of fiction include fairy tales about supernatural characters and fables where animals can talk. Modern fiction is dominated by novels, a form that arrived in English in the 18th century and has key elements like setting, characters, plot, theme, and point of view. Novels can be social, domestic, historical, autobiographical, epistolary, stream-of-consciousness, science fiction, terrifying, or detective fiction. Short stories are also a form of narrative prose but are typically shorter works that cover less time and space than novels. Both novels and short stories should have a beginning, middle, end and follow basic story structure
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The Five Moves of Analysis
(aka The Most Important Thing You Will Ever Learn)
1. Suspend Judgment: Set aside your likes and dislikes, your agreeing or disagreeing. Say to yourself, “What I find most interesting here is...”.
2. Notice and Focus: Simply put, pay close attention to details. “What do you notice?” What is significant/interesting/revealing/ strange. Slow down and take your time here. Don’t jump to interpretations before you’ve exhausted the details. Uncertainty is good.
3. Look for Patterns: Start sifting through the text looking for Repetitions, Strands, Binaries, and Anomalies.
Repetitions: sheep dog in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
Strands: Animals in "How to Talk to a Hunter," alcohol in "Sonny's Blues"
Binaries: Light/Dark in "Sonny's Blues," young/old in "One of Star Wars, One of Doom"
Anomalies: Mysterious notebook in "One of Star Wars, One of Doom," tin of chocolates with Santa Claus "fondling" children painted on it in "How to Talk to a Hunter"
4. Make the Implicit Explicit: Explain to the reader what the details or the patterns imply. Explain your thought process. Pull out the implications and show them why you think they are “folded in” to the meaning of the text or image. What does this mean and So What? Why is it important?
5. Keep Reformulating Questions and Explanations: What else might this detail or pattern mean? How else could it be explained? What details don’t fit my theory? Can I adjust my theory to better fit with this?
Prepping the Final Paper
Take a minute to re-read the assignment sheet for Paper 3. Then choose which prompt you would like to focus on for your paper. Once you have chosen your prompt, I would like you to go through the book and identify the scenes that you think link to your topic in an interesting way. Now…
1. List the scenes you have chosen, e.g. “Scene #1: The scene in which Oscar is taken into the cane and beaten.”
2. Carefully gather details from your chosen scenes. These should include both individual details you find interesting or bizarre, AND binaries, strands, repetitions, and anomalies. Use the skills we’ve practiced all quarter long to gather these. Write them down. For example, “Oscar’s hands are ‘seamless’ in the dream.’
3. Now spend some time pulling multiple implications out of as many details as you can. For instance, “Seamless hands = brand new, no history, no fingerprints so no traces, like a blank page.”
4. Choose your six juiciest, most interesting and analytically rich details and type them up in a list that includes implications.
5. Use your detail-analysis to develop a working thesis. This is your own analytical theory about what is going on in the scenes you’ve chosen. What have you uncovered and why is it significant? Write that thesis down.
My answer
1. Scene
#1: The scene in which Oscar’s dead at the beginning.
#2: The scene in which the narrator is not Yunior in chapter 2.
#3: Narrating the identity of Yunior.
#4: Using footn ...
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TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis
T Title Before you even think about reading the poetry or trying to analyze it, speculate on what
you think the poem might be about based upon the title. Often time, authors conceal
meaning and give clues in the title. Jot down what you think this poem will be about
P Paraphrase Before you begin thinking about meaning or trying to analyze the poem, don't overlook the
literal meaning of the poem. One of the biggest problems that students often make in
poetry analysis is jumping to conclusions before understanding what is taking place in the
poem. When you paraphrase a poem, write in your own words exactly what happens in
each line of the poem. Look at the number of sentences in the poem—your paraphrase
should have exactly the same number. This technique is especially helpful for poems
written in the 17th and 19th centuries that use language that is harder to understand.
C Connotation Although this term usually refers solely to the emotional overtones of word choice, for this
chart the term refers to any and all poetic devices, focusing on how such devices contribute
to the meaning, the effect, or both of a poem. You may consider imagery, figures of speech
(simile, metaphor, personification, symbolism, etc), diction, point of view, and sound
devices (alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhythm, and rhyme). It is not necessary that you
identify all the poetic devices within the poem. The ones you do identify should be seen as
a way of supporting the conclusions you are going to draw about the poem.
A Attitude Having examined the poem's devices and clues closely, you are now ready to explore the
multiple attitudes that may be present in the poem. Examination of diction, images, and
details suggests the speaker's attitude and contributes to understanding. Think about the
tone of the poem and how the author has created it. Remember that usually the tone or
attitude cannot be named with a single word - think complexity.
S Shifts Rarely does a poem begin and end the poetic expe.
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