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The document discusses analyzing various components of fiction and nonfiction texts, including characters, setting, plot, theme, and connections between texts. It also mentions identifying and analyzing personification within a text. Specifically, it describes identifying, interpreting, comparing, and describing characters' actions, motives, dialogue, emotions, traits, and relationships; a setting's relationship to other text components; elements of plot like conflict, rising action, and resolution; how theme relates to other components; and examples of personification.
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response of the author to the characters. What is the nature of this interaction? To what extent
does the emotional quality of the characters' experience set the tone? Is there any tension
between the author and the characters (as in irony and satire)? What does tone--this emotional
quality or moo.
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PROMPT 1 Write an analysis of a key character in a literary work. Focus on the key actions and thoughts of that character. Discuss the character’s motivations and decisions in terms you can support with clear evidence from a critical reading of the text. Consider whether this character’s actions fit together or contradict each other. You may also want to consider whether or not any other characters in the story are aware of this conflict, and if so, how they influence the character you are writing about.
Literary Works (choose one):
“Piropo” (Leticia del Toro, 2011) [ch. 5] Guiding Questions 1. What types of conflicts are revealed between the narrator and the other workers? Between the narrator and their employers? (Cultural? Familial? Economic? Others?) 2. The first-person narrator comments on how a woman in the story dresses and acts. How does this relate to the conflicts in the story? 3. How could you address the narrator’s internal conflict (“individual v. self”) in terms of the political, familial, and social conflicts in the story?
In your worksheet,
Identify the specific prompt and literary work you will write about.
Explain the connection between the literary work and the prompt you chose.
Explain the key components of the literary work (e.g. character and setting) using literary terms.
Discuss a central conflict in the literary work and how it connects to your chosen prompt.
Develop a working thesis that articulates an analytical claim about the literary work. (Keep in mind that “working thesis” means you can slightly modify your thesis for the draft and/or final essay.)
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Literary Terms
This document provides definitions and explanations of various literary terms that will be used in a short story unit. It defines terms like character, protagonist, antagonist, plot, conflict, setting, theme, point of view, imagery, tone, mood, style, foreshadowing, and figures of speech like metaphor, simile, oxymoron, personification and alliteration. Examples are provided for many of the terms. Students are instructed to take notes on the terms for use in analyzing literary works.
Lit terms
This document provides definitions and explanations of various literary terms that will be used throughout a fiction unit and semester. It defines key terms like character, protagonist, antagonist, plot, conflict, setting, theme, point of view, imagery, tone, mood, style and various figures of speech. Examples are provided for most terms to illustrate their meanings. Students are expected to learn and be able to identify these terms as they apply in literary works.
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This document provides definitions and explanations of various literary terms that will be used throughout the school year, including on final exams. It lists terms like character, antagonist, protagonist, diction, imagery, mood, plot (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution), conflict, flashback, foreshadowing, suspense, point of view, setting, style, theme, tone, and various figures of speech. Students are responsible for learning these terms and keeping up with their notes, as the terms will appear on final exams in June.
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Exploration of one or more characteristic(s) of an author's style and approach
Consider analyzing the author's use of imagery or setting:
Analyzing Setting
“Setting refers to the natural or artificial scenery or environment in which characters in literature live and move. Seeing also includes what in the theater would be called props or properties—the implements employed by the characters in various activities. Such things as the time of day and the consequent amount of light at which an event occurs, the flora and fauna, the sounds described, the smells, and the weather are also part of the setting. Paintbrushes, apples, pitchforks, rafts, six-shooters, watches, automobiles, horses and buggies, and innumerable other items belong to the setting. References to clothing, descriptions of physical appearance, and spatial relationships among the characters are also part of setting.” (Edgar V. Roberts, Writing Themes about Literature)
In order to create an argument about the function of the setting in a particular work, you need to identify the principal settings and to see how they work. Here are some steps you can take:
1) Read the story and mark references to setting. Start with the place and time of the action and then focus upon recurrent details and objects.
2) Think about what the story is about. What happens? What is its point? Is it a story about love, jealousy, gain, or loss? What is the main experience here?
3) Look through your setting notes and see if they fall into any pattern. What are the interesting shifts and contrasts?
4) Determine how the setting relates to either the main point of the story (step 2) or to some part of it. In other words what does the setting have to do with character or action? What are its effects? Whatever you decide here will be your thesis statement.
5) Make an outline, indicating what aspects of setting you will discuss and what you intend to say about them. Discard notes that are not central to your plan (you don’t have to discuss everything). Focus on the four or five key passages in the story that you wish to examine. List them in your outline in the order in which they occur.
Analyzing Imagery
As distinct from character, theme, and plot, imagery occurs primarily in language, in the metaphors (i.e. comparisons), similes (comparisons with “like” or “as”), or other forms of figurative (pictorial) language in a literary work. Sometimes setting, i.e., the locality or placing of scenes, or stage props (like swords, flowers, blood, winecups) can also be considered under the rubric of imagery. But whatever the expression, images primarily are visual and concrete, i.e., things which the reader sees or can imagine seeing. Some examples are flowers, tears, animals, the moon, sun, stars, diseases, floods, metals, darkness and light.
In order to create an argument about the significance of an image in a particular work, identify a principal image or image cluster and to see how it works by following the.
Short Story In Depth Powerpoint
The document provides an overview of key elements of short stories, including conflict, plot, setting, character, point of view, theme, and figurative language. It defines different types of conflict such as man vs. man, man vs. nature, and internal vs. external conflict. It also explains literary devices like foreshadowing, flashback, and figurative language techniques including simile, metaphor, and personification. The document serves as a guide for understanding foundational concepts in short story elements and analysis.
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This document provides guidance on how to write a successful literary analysis paper. It explains that a literary analysis argues a specific thesis about a work's attributes using evidence from the text. It outlines how to analyze essential elements like theme, plot, characters, setting, point of view, and rhetorical devices. It emphasizes developing a clear, original thesis and supporting it through paragraphs that link back to the thesis. The conclusion reiterates focusing the paper on a significant thesis and coherent organization.
Intro.Lit Analysis
Overview of literary analysis process for work of fiction. Includes overview of story elements and rhetorical devices
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Exploration of one or more characteristic(s) of an author's style and approach
Consider analyzing the author's use of imagery or setting:
Analyzing Setting
“Setting refers to the natural or artificial scenery or environment in which characters in literature live and move. Seeing also includes what in the theater would be called props or properties—the implements employed by the characters in various activities. Such things as the time of day and the consequent amount of light at which an event occurs, the flora and fauna, the sounds described, the smells, and the weather are also part of the setting. Paintbrushes, apples, pitchforks, rafts, six-shooters, watches, automobiles, horses and buggies, and innumerable other items belong to the setting. References to clothing, descriptions of physical appearance, and spatial relationships among the characters are also part of setting.” (Edgar V. Roberts, Writing Themes about Literature)
In order to create an argument about the function of the setting in a particular work, you need to identify the principal settings and to see how they work. Here are some steps you can take:
1) Read the story and mark references to setting. Start with the place and time of the action and then focus upon recurrent details and objects.
2) Think about what the story is about. What happens? What is its point? Is it a story about love, jealousy, gain, or loss? What is the main experience here?
3) Look through your setting notes and see if they fall into any pattern. What are the interesting shifts and contrasts?
4) Determine how the setting relates to either the main point of the story (step 2) or to some part of it. In other words what does the setting have to do with character or action? What are its effects? Whatever you decide here will be your thesis statement.
5) Make an outline, indicating what aspects of setting you will discuss and what you intend to say about them. Discard notes that are not central to your plan (you don’t have to discuss everything). Focus on the four or five key passages in the story that you wish to examine. ...
Term Definition Allegory an extended symbol that lasts for.docx
Term Definition
Allegory an extended symbol that lasts for the duration of the entire narrative
Alliteration
repetition of consonant sounds; (try to trick ten tiny teens) or Peter Piper picked a pack of
pickeled peppers.
Allusion a reference to something else
Archetypes symbolic elements that recur in different cultures
Assonance repetition of vowel sounds; (Owls owe our only ounce)
Author The person who wrote the text.
Diction Word Choice, determines tone
Dynamic character changes over time
First-person singular narrator
Internal; narrator uses the first person pronoun “I”
(first-person plural- “we”, less common)
Flat Character Behaves in an expected manner
Foil a character held up consistently as a contrast to another character.
Foreshadowing clues as to what is to come ahead
Illusion like a mirage or a ghost, a vision that is not real
In media res in the middle of things
Irony
when the intended meaning is the opposite to what is written or said.
(It says one thing but means the reverse)
Limited narrator external; access to thoughts and feelings of one character.
Metaphor More explicit comparison (she is the sun)
Narrative a story, whether true or fictional, that is told by a narrator
Narrator The person in the text who tells the story.
Omniscient narrator external; has access to thoughts and feelings of all characters.
Onomatopoeia words that sound like what they mean (splish splash)
Oxymoron a combination of contradictory ideas (wise fool)
Personification An inanimate object displays human behavior. (The rock talks)
Round Character Has a psychological complexity
Second person narrator
could be internal or external. Addresses “you”. Less common.
Turns reader into character in story.
Simile comparison using like or as; She is like the sun.
Static Character remains the same over time
Stock character represent a "type," often like a cliché
Symbol something that stands for something else
Syntax Sentence structure
Third-person narrator
External; refers to all characters through pronouns he, she, they.
Narrator is not a character in the action.
Tone writer's attitude toward
Unreliable narrator
often a 1
st
person narrator is unreliable.
Unknowingly reveals character flaws.
RHET 1302
Essay #1: Rhetorical Analysis
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Length: 3-4 FULL pages with Works Cited (Works Cited does not count towards page total)
Sources: One speech
Points: Final (100 points), Full Draft (20 points)
Purpose: Rhetoric is the art of effective communication, or as Aristotle stated, “the ability to see or
identify in any given circumstance the available means of persuasion.” In Rhetoric, we focus on “how”
people are communicating rather than simply what they are saying. This.
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