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This document provides guidance on developing a thesis and analyzing elements such as symbolism and characterization for a literary analysis. It discusses evaluating ideas, organizing an analysis, and focusing on themes rather than just summarizing the plot. The document also recommends including sufficient examples to support the thesis, writing in the present tense, and using an introduction to engage the reader and a conclusion to provide closure.
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Imagery
Imagery refers to the creation of mental images – sight, sound, taste, touch – through words.
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Types of imagery
Visual imagery uses words to create sights. In Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” the visual is that of faces in a station crowd. In Pound’s image, these faces are “Petals on a wet, black bough” (line 2).
Auditory imagery captures sounds. In “Preludes,” Eliot’s images of the city include the familiar sounds of inner-city life:
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Olfactory imagery uses smell to create an experience. It’s quite direct in Eliot’s “Preludes”: “The winter evening settles down / With smell of steaks in passageways” (lines 1-2). And again: “The morning comes to consciousness / Of faint stale smells of beer” (14-15).
Gustatory imagery describes tastes. In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats describes pining for the taste of wine thus: “O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been / Cool’d a long age in the deep-delved earth, / Tasting of Flora and the country green” (lines 11 – 13).
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Kinetic imagery is images of general motion, while kinesthetic imagery is images of human or animal movement. In “Sonnet 130,” Shakespeare describes the awkward walk of his beloved: “My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground” (line 12).
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This document provides guidance on writing literary analysis papers, including defining what constitutes a literary argument and thesis statement. It offers tips for choosing topics, conducting research, using secondary sources to support arguments, and following MLA format conventions. Stress surrounding the writing process is also addressed, with suggestions for pacing one's work and allowing time for breaks to avoid negative stress.
Practical stylistics
The document provides an overview of how to analyze different genres of literature including poetry, novels, drama, and prose. It discusses examining various elements such as theme, plot, characters, setting, point of view, conflict, style, and dialogue. For poetry, it notes analyzing rhyme scheme, sound devices, imagery, and theme. For novels and drama, it outlines analyzing theme, plot, characters, and how the theme is handled. It also defines different types of characters, plots, settings, narrators, and conflicts that commonly appear in literature.
Short story terms
This document provides definitions and explanations of key literary terms used in analyzing short stories and plots. It discusses the five stages of plot: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Other terms defined include setting, protagonist, antagonist, conflict, narrator, point of view, irony, foreshadowing, theme, and many common literary devices. The document is intended as a reference for understanding short story elements and analyzing narrative structure.
Literaturepowerpoint2
This document provides an overview of key concepts in literature including genres, elements of fiction, characters, plot, setting, point of view, symbolism and theme. It discusses four main genres: prose fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction prose. Elements of fiction include realism, premise, character, plot, structure, theme and style. Characters can be rounded, flat or stock. Plot involves conflict which creates tension. Structure defines a work's layout. Point of view considers narration perspective. Setting establishes context. Tone and style impact language choice. Symbolism and allegory expand meaning through representations. Theme examines a work's ideas and values.
How to Teach Fiction
This document provides an outline for teaching fiction. It discusses the key elements of fiction including:
- The nature of literature - Literature uses language aesthetically and fictionally to be both true and expressive. It aims to provoke an emotional response in readers.
- The nature of fiction - Fiction differs from history in that it uses invented facts and emphasizes order, conflict, and individual experiences over large-scale events. It also deals with subjective human perception.
- Elements of fiction - These include plot, characterization, theme, setting, and point of view. It defines these elements and provides examples of how authors use them in fictional works.
Narratives-123.pptx
This document provides details about the course "Functional English" and discusses elements of narrative writing. It defines narrative as a way to present connected events and tell a good story. The key elements of narrative writing discussed include characters, plot, theme, conflict, setting, style, and point of view. It also covers types of narratives such as descriptive, viewpoint, historical, linear, and non-linear narratives. Common literary devices used in narratives like figurative language and imagery are explained.
poetry analyses
This document provides an introduction to writing poetry analysis essays. It discusses analyzing elements of poetry like theme, imagery, structure and interpreting what effect they have on conveying the poet's meaning. It explains that an analysis develops an interpretation of a poem through an argument presented in a thesis statement. The essay should include an introduction with background on the poem, a body with paragraphs on topics supporting the thesis, and a conclusion that restates the thesis. Each paragraph requires a topic sentence stating its topic and evidence from the poem.
Analyze fiction irony
This document provides guidance on how to analyze and interpret literature. It discusses approaching the text, reading characters based on their clothes, language, body language, actions, thoughts, attitudes and relationships. It also covers hearing others based on their tone. When analyzing fiction, it is important to examine the plot, characters, setting, point of view, tone and theme. The plot involves conflict, typically having an exposition, complication, climax and resolution. Characters may change over time based on events. The setting establishes mood. Point of view can be first person, third person omniscient or third person limited. Tone reflects the author's attitude. Theme deals with human nature and experiences.
Essay 750 words count, double-spaced and MLA format. The short
Essay: 750 words count, double-spaced and MLA format. The short story “Bloodchild” will be attached.
Instruction for Paper 1:
What is the significance of the literary element (plot, setting, characterization/character, diction, theme) you have chosen as the focus for your paper? You will develop a paper that answers this question and demonstrates the following outcomes for writing and literature:
Analyze literature for a purpose
Distinguish digital or print materials through annotation to demonstrate reading and summary skills
Identify a literary element--such as plot, setting, character, diction, or theme--in a short story
Identify one to three examples in the story that support the thesis
Write a thesis that clearly states your interpretation of the "meaning" (significance) the story based upon evidence related to the literary element you have selected to examine in the story
Write clear topic sentences for paragraphs that let the reader know what each paragraph of the body of the paper will discuss
Write paragraphs that explain how the examples from the story support the thesis
Arrange a paper by presenting paragraphs in a coherent, purposeful manner
Write sentences in standard American English that clearly express ideas
Demonstrate the MLA style of formatting in the layout of a paper
Demonstrate the MLA style of formatting by documenting material from the story within the paper and on a Works Cited page
Explain in a clear and logical fashion what you have learned about your writing
*Hints:
Remember that your reader has read the story and is familiar with it; extensive summary is not useful. Rather, explain and analyze how "meaning" is derived from the story by the author's implementation of a literary element. Note that the paper is to be about the story, not the author, so repeated references to the author are unnecessary and ill advised.
*Special Hint about Plot:
Be aware that a paper analyzing a piece of literature is NOT a plot summary. Summary, if you must have it, should provide only details necessary to identify parts of the story required to develop the paper, no longer than three to four sentences.
Select one from the literary elements listed below:
Plot
- the arrangement of ideas and/or incidents that make up a story
Foreshadowing
- When the writer clues the reader in to something that will eventually occur in the story; it may be explicit (obvious) or implied (disguised).
Suspense
- The tension that the author uses to create a feeling of discomfort about the unknown
Conflict
- Struggle between opposing forces.
Exposition
- Background information regarding the setting, characters, plot.
Rising Action
- The process the story follows as it builds to its main conflict
Crisis
- A significant turning point in the story that determines how it must end
Resolution/Denouement
- The way the story turns out.
Character
-
representation of a person, place, or ...
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 ...
Elementoffiction
This document defines and discusses several key elements of fiction, including setting, character, plot, point of view, theme, and symbolism. It provides examples to illustrate each element. Setting establishes the time, location, and socio-economic context of a story. Character refers to the people or animals in a story, and can be round, dynamic, flat, or static. Plot involves the sequence of events that make up the story, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Point of view determines the perspective from which the story is told. Theme conveys the central idea or insight about human nature. Symbolism uses objects to represent larger concepts.
Literary elements and devices
The document defines and provides examples of various literary elements and devices found in stories, focusing specifically on Rudyard Kipling's short story "Rikki-tikki-tavi". It identifies the key elements in the story such as characters (Rikki-tikki-tavi the mongoose, Nag and Nagaina the cobras), setting (a bungalow in India), conflict (Rikki protecting the family from the snakes), point of view (omniscient narrator), theme (courage and survival), and mood (suspenseful with relief at the end). Examples of literary devices used in the story are also discussed, including foreshadowing, irony, symbolism
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Literary analysis
- 1. Evaluating your ideas Developing your thesis Organizing and drafting
- 2. Once you have to generate idea for your literary analysis of any poem or paly. Second step is to evaluate ideas. You can evaluate your idea by reviewing notes and prewriting. Some approaches that will help you to evaluate your idea in better way
- 3. • Symbolism refer to the action of characters and events that happens throughout story that has deeper meaning. • For example: Black is used to represent death or evil & A broken merrier is symbolize separation
- 4. “I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: two vast and trunk less legs of stone Stand in the desert near them on the sand Half sunk a shattered visage lies whose frown” (poem OZYMANDIAS written by P.B.Shelley) In my words: “Ruined statue” in this poem symbolizes the final state of man’s vanity The “lone and level sands” symbolize distractive power of time and nature
- 5. “Struggle between opposing forces” This is the type of external conflict…!
- 6. Characterization refer to the choices an author makes to reveal a character’s personality such as appearance, action, dialogue and motivation. In my own words: In the story of FROZEN the character of ANNA is realistic and flat. She didn't change her character through out the story.
- 7. Analyze how the true nature of a character is revealed or how a character changes in response to circumstances. 5: Explore themes: Discover the important point or theme the work conveys and back up your ideas with examples. For example: in “Harry potter” series there are two fundamental concepts that drive the story: power of love, Man’s struggle against death.
- 8. Your thesis should indicate the element of the work you will analyze. Its theme Characters Use of symbolism Examples For example: in the play “the piece of string” whole story circulate around a man MR. Hubert who pickup a piece of string from the road but people blamed him by calling him a thief. So the thesis statement “the piece of string” correctly define that the whole story .
- 9. 1. Choose a method of organization 2. Focus your essay on ideas and no on events 3. Write in the present tense 4. Include sufficient examples 5. Write and effective introduction 6. Write a satisfy conclusion
- 10. Chronological order Most-to least order thesis First event Second event Last event Final paragraph Less important evidence Most important evidence thesis Least important evidence Final paragraph Introduction body conclusion
- 11. • Remember that your literary analysis should not summarize the work but focus on your ideas and interpretation. 3. Write in the present tense: Treat the events in the work as if they are happening now rather than in past. For example, write “the author describes in this play….” not “The author described in this play…”
- 12. Use enough examples to support your thesis but not so many that your essay becomes one long string of examples with no clear main point. Include line numbers, page numbers, paragraph number put parentheses after any quotations The introduction for a literary analysis should engage reader, name the author and title of the work, present your thesis suggest why your analysis of the work is useful or important. Use the techniques similar to those just described for introduction. Your purpose are to give the essay a sense of closure.