Read the following tree-diagram and convert it into a paragraph.
1. Read the following tree-diagram and convert it into a paragraph.
Literature
Verse
Prose
Poetry
Drama
Fiction
Non Fiction
Novel
Biography
Short Story
Essay
Criticism
Answers
Answer:
The opening assignment in this literature-themed writing course is the analysis of the single poem, story, novel, or play. This assignment will form the basis of most of the other writing assignments you will be required to undertake in your Writ 102 literature class. It is important that you know how to write an analysis—sometimes called an interpretation or a literary analysis or a critical reading or a critical analysis in order to identify an author’s or text’s main idea through the process of explication. To understand what is required in your analysis, be certain to first familiarize yourself with the Analysis assignment and read Edward Hirsch’s “How to Read a Poem.”
How to Structure An Analysis Essay
There is no one single method for structuring your analysis. In fact, there are several equally valid ways of structuring a literary analysis. What takes time and effort is discovering the best method for your purpose and audience, and the methods presented here are easy enough to modify to fit those needs.
Introduction: Presenting the Main Idea
Regardless of what method you use, it is always sound to begin your analysis with a paragraph that provides the context of the work you are analyzing and a brief account of what you believe to be the poem or story or play’s main theme. At a minimum, your account of the work’s context will include the name of the author, the title of the work, its genre, and the date and place of publication. If there is an important biographical or historical context to the work, you should include that, as well. However, don’t get lost in details. Your audience except a concise (meaning short) level of background. Next, try to express the work’s theme in one or two sentences. Theme is that insight into human experience the author offers to readers, usually revealed as the content, the drama, the plot of the poem, story, or play unfolds and the characters interact. Assessing theme can be a complex task. Authors usually show the theme; they don’t tell it. They rarely say, at the end of the story, words to this effect: “and the moral of my story is…” They tell their story, develop their characters, provide some kind of conflict—and from all of this theme emerges. Because identifying theme can be challenging and subjective, it is often a good idea to work through the rest of the analysis, then return to the beginning and assess theme in light of your analysis of the work’s other literary elements.