Analyzing Literature Assessment Step 1: Review the prompt. Layers of meaning exist in all works of literary fiction. Consider the ways the author of your selected short story used style and literary elements, like plot, diction, syntax, figurative language, character, conflict, and setting. Compose an essay in which you analyze and explain how the author's style and employment of literary elements create a particular mood in the text. Step 2: Review your short story and your graphic or ganizer. Step 3: Plan your essay using the chart below. Begin with your thesis statement, and then fill out the outline based on your thesis. You may or may not use each section, but provide as much information as possible in the planning stage. Thesis S tatement My Thesis: In the story "What I Have Been Doing Lately" Jamaica Kincaid uses literary elements such as plot, dictation, synatx, and setting to show a unusual impression for the reader. Body Paragraph: I. Reason #1 A. Direct Quote #1 to Suppor t Reason 1. Paraphrase this Evidence B. Connection to Thesis 1. Elaborate on Connection C. Direct Quote #2 to Support Reason 1. Paraphrase this Evidence D. Connection to Thesis 1. Elaborate on Connection E. Concluding Statement that Restates Language from Thesis I. Jamaica Kincaid shows a unusual impression for the reader. A. "While walking north, I looked up and saw the planet Venus." 1. The narrator walks around, meanwhile, sees Venus in the sky. B. The story takes place in a unusual setting. 1. The evidence supports the unusual feeling of the story because of the unreal setting, C. "I wanted to get across it but it would take I didn't know how long to build a bridge. Years passed and then one day, feeling like it, I got int o my boat and rowed across." 1.The narrator wants to get across a body of water then suddenly years pass, and the narrator gets in a boat to go across the water. D. As many years go by in a blink of an eye. 1. The way the years passed in a blink of an e ye in the story was imaginary, E. The authors use of an unusual setting gives the feeling of a unreal experience in the story. Body Paragraph: II. Reason #2 A. Direct Quote #1 to Support Reason 1. Paraphrase this Evidence II. The plot and the use of syntax that the author uses gives a unusual feeling, This study source was downloaded by 100000850872992 from CourseHero.com on 08-24-2023 02:05:26 GMT -05:00
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