Write an engaging opening that introduces the literary work, its author, and the work’s critical context.
Write an engaging opening that introduces the literary work, its author, and the work’s critical context. Overall, your opening should inspire critical thinking about the literary work and proceed logically to a thesis/argument.
Thesis:
Write an easily identifiable, well-phrased argument/thesis about the literary work. This thesis should reflect sound, analytical thinking, and relate to the work’s critical context.
Organization/Body Paragraphs:
Every paragraph should include topic sentence that clearly connects to the thesis and offers an identifiable, well-phrased idea to be proven in the paragraph. Incorporate concrete details/textual evidence from the literary work and secondary sources for your analysis/interpretation. These paragraphs should be well-organized and create a coherent, carefully developed and supported argument. Be sure that your transitions between ideas are logical and that each idea builds on the preceding one. Keep this in mind: you must maintain focus and control of your argument so that the point of each paragraph is always clear.
Literary Understanding and Analysis
Your essay should demonstrate an analytical understanding of your selected literary work and its critical context. Use literary terminology and concepts accurately throughout your paper as you examine and discuss your selected work of literature and secondary sources (character, theme, setting, rhyme, point of view, alliteration, symbolfkts, imagery, figurative language, protagonist,
