Literature

Assignment #3 Instructions: Analytical Essay

For this assignment, students will write an analytical essay based on an assigned short story.  You can find the short stories at  http://www.englishlibrary.org/stories.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. .  You will begin working on this assignment (reading, viewing, drafting) in Unit Eight, but submit the paper in Unit Nine. 

The purpose of an analytical essay is to deconstruct a story based on the literary elements it contains.  These literary elements include plot, character, setting, point of view, language, tone, and style, symbolism, and theme. 

Each body paragraph should explore one of the elements of literature, using the specific and technical terms explained within the lectures. 

This essay should:

· explore, in detail, each literary element within the short story you've selected

· support the analysis with evidence from the text

· be 1000 words long

· have an explicit thesis statement, with the main idea (the topic of the paper) and a controlling idea (what you, as the author, is saying about the topic)

· include an integrated, direct quote from the text support the thesis in each of the body paragraphs

· be written using  APA formatting guidelines

· use APA guidelines for citation, both in-text and on a References page

· avoid using 1st- or 2nd-person references (focus on objective 3rd-person references instead)

· be submitted as a MS Word .docx file