The essay identifies the name of the poem and the author at the beginning. The essay presents a thesis in the introductory paragraph and ends with a concluding paragraph that restates the thesis of the essay. The body of the essay contains paragraphs that support the essay's thesis. The essay usually follows one or an appropriate combination of the four major organizational plans (chronological order, spatial order, logical order, order of importance), but there may be a few details or ideas that are out of place. Transitions are generally used effectively.
Circle or underline any words that suggest something to you about a character's beliefs and feelings or that you think the author is using to create a particular effect. RESPOND TO THE WRITING. What inferences can you make from the words, sentences and literary devices the author uses? What does the writing make you feel or think? Do you see any patterns of imagery or figurative language?
Describe your personal relationship to literature and to reading. Begin by considering the meaning of literature. What does the term literature mean to you? What makes something literary in your own mind? If literature means different things to different people, who defines what is and what is not literature?
Literary Terms Figures of speech are words or phrases that describe one thing in terms of something else. They always involve some sort of imaginative comparison between seemingly unlike things. Not meant to be taken literally, figurative language is used to produce images in a reader’s mind and to express ideas in fresh, vivid, and imaginative ways. The most common examples of figurative language, or figures of speech, used in both prose and poetry, are simile, metaphor, and personification. Flashback is a scene that interrupts the action of a work to show a previous event.
The Formalist Lens main focus is on the language, structure, and the tone of the text. Literary devices like diction, irony, paradox, and etc. are used to show how everything in the text comes together. This lens can help with the understanding of the text by being able to know why it is written the way it is written. This lens applies to chapter one of A Separate Peace.
- How may it be tied to literary influences? - Provide a secondary citation to support your argument - Justify use of citation 4. Literary Movement Analysis: - Which literary movements or works may correlate to the institution? - Describe the movement/style/genre of the correlated works. - Draw a correlation between the institution and the literary movement.
Recognize the elements of appropriate literary genres. Focus a topic and formulate a critical/analytical thesis, focus, main point, or claim appropriate for an academic audience that analyzes literature – nonfiction and/or fiction. Use a variety of organizational strategies within a single paper to support a thesis, focus, main point, or claim. Interpret texts in a variety of cultural and historical contexts. Demonstrate an ability to use effective research techniques to find appropriate oral and/or written media such as books, articles, interviews, visuals, and government documents.
Diction After deciding the structure and the other related norms of writing the sentence, the next step should be the diction. Diction is in fact the writing style of the writer, which sometimes also depicts the mood of the writer. The writer can use the narrative tone, the descriptive tone, and any other style. But some of the major things that should be considered in writing the effective writing include clear thoughts and concrete abstract concepts. Mixing and intermingling, the text can make the reader confused and overall the image of the writing is conveyed as
Through any and every writing, an author has a point hidden within literary elements. With literary elements authors develop a style to their writing to prove the point they intended from the beginning. There are many various literary elements to make up a rhetorical situation, to develop a side of ideas, some very commonly used in especially rhetorical situations. Like allusion, hyperbole, rhetorical questions, hypophora, and commonly simile. Mohandas K. Gandhi and Henry David Thoreau speak of and develop similar government opinions and points, through their interpretations of Civil Disobedience through literary elements; they prove similar points of civil disobedience but with their own style of writing and use of rhetorical devices.
(Talk about Song of Solomon) The structure of the writing is in third person, so the reader may weave in and out of the character personas and also view the panorama of the story structure. In the story Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison often correlates the characters and places names with their personality, traits, behaviors and history. She also uses onomastics to demonstrate how the names of the characters result in both liberation and oppression. According to Encarta dictionary, onomastic is “relating to, connected with, or explaining names” and Webster dictionary describes reading as a process in order “to note the action or characteristics of in order to anticipate what will happen” The way she illustrated onomastic reading in the story “Song of Solomon” is through (the three characters: Macon “Milkman” Deads, Guitar Bates and…………..) because of: She also described places names with the (How were African Americans were treated in 1931?) from what was known as No Mercy hospital in the black community.