Essay - Literary Analysis of Short Fiction
For our short fiction literary analysis, choose as your topic one of the stories the class has read. Be sure the story is one that you understand fully in which you can identify significant use of three of the literary elements discussed (for example, tone, symbolism, and metaphor). Essay should be a minimum of 1000 words, independent of quoted text.
Your thesis statement should include identification of those three literary elements as well as your expression of the story's theme, and the analysis itself will focus on demonstrating and explaining how those literary elements work together to create that theme you have described.
A very basic layout of the analytical thesis statement might look like this:
In "The Tell-Tale Heart", Edgar Allan Poe uses tone, symbolism, and metaphor to express a perspective on the theme of (however you would describe the story's theme).
To review, Essay #1 requires:
- Analysis of the three literary elements named in the thesis statement, using three points of discussion and analysis for each one of those literary elements. Support and illustrate your analysis with direct quotation from the poem.
- A minimum of 6 direct quotations (with correct author/page number citation) from the story itself, correctly integrated and cited.
The essay should include a thesis statement, an introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, and a conclusion paragraph in which the main ideas of the thesis statement are reiterated.
Outline: format for literary analysis of a short story
I. Introduction paragraph with thesis statement. The thesis statement establishes the three literary elements to be analyzed and your articulation of the story's theme or main message. For example: In "The Tell-Tale Heart", Poe uses tone, characterization, and irony to express a perspective on the theme of...?
II. Literary element #1: Begin with a topic sentence that establishes the literary element about to be analyzed and suggests how that connects with the theme you identified in the thesis statement.
A. Move to your first point of support. To strengthen the point, use an example directly quoted from the text. Be sure to follow up with adequate explanation as to what that particular quote signifies-why it is important? What does it demonstrate?
B. Continue with a second point of support, using example quoted from the text.
C. Continue with third point of support, using example quoted from the text.
D. Conclude and transition.
III. Literary element: Begin with a topic sentence that establishes the literary element about to be analyzed and suggests how that connects with the theme you identified in the thesis statement.
A. Move to your first point of support. To strengthen the point, use an example directly quoted from the text. Be sure to follow up with adequate explanation as to what that particular quote signifies-why it is important? What does it demonstrate?
B. Continue with a second point of support, using example quoted from the text.
C. Continue with third point of support, using example quoted from the text.
D. Conclude and transition.
IV. Literary element #3: Begin with a topic sentence that establishes the literary element about to be analyzed and suggests how that connects with the theme you identified in the thesis statement.
A. Move to your first point of support. To strengthen the point, use an example directly quoted from the text. Be sure to follow up with adequate explanation as to what that particular quote signifies-why it is important? What does it demonstrate?
B. Continue with a second point of support, using example quoted from the text.
C. Continue with third point of support, using example quoted from the text.
D. Conclude and transition.
V. Conclusion paragraph, in which the main idea of the thesis statement is reiterated in fresh language.
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