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ENG 209.01 or ENG 209.06

24 October 2018

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For this paper, write a 3-5 page literary analysis of a single pattern of literary strategies in Akata Witch. This is a short paper, so it should have a small focus and a single, thesis that unifies all of your topic sentences . Review the handout on narrative terms. A pattern of literary strategies is the repeated use of a particular kind of strategy. You need to identify such a pattern in order to be able to create a single thesis. Otherwise, you’ll just be listing a whole bunch of different literary strategies, and you won’t be able to offer a single interpretation of them for your paper. Note that not all literary terms are equally useful for a literary analysis paper. For instance, analyzing the plot of the novel might merely lead you to summarizing the novel, where arguing that a specific motif symbolizes a character’s deepest desires would allow you to do real analysis and have an original thesis. Obviously, your paper should demonstrate a solid and accurate understanding of the novel and the literary terms you use.

Your paper should have an introduction with a single, arguable thesis about a single pattern of literary strategies, a body made of several paragraphs of literary analysis, and a conclusion . Any good introduction gets the reader’s attention and establishes what the essay will be about. Write your paper so that any college-educated person would be able to follow it even if they haven’t read this novel (Note: Avoid explaining any concepts that a college-educated reader should be familiar with, including literary terms). Name the author and give the title (correctly formatted). Offer a 1-3 sentence summary of the whole novel, focusing especially

on the parts relevant to setting up your thesis and what your reader needs to know to follow your paper. It can help to think of this summary as setting up a problem that your thesis will attempt to solve: what literary part of the text that resists interpretation will your paper address? Be sure that you have a real thesis. It should be a single sentence at the end of the intro that 1) identifies a single pattern of literary strategies + 2) makes an interpretive claim about how that pattern of literary strategies adds a new meaning to the text. A pattern of literary strategies usually has two parts: a kind of literary device + how this literary device is repeated in a specific way throughout the text. E.g., similes that compare people to animals, a motif of birds, imagery of darkness, ETC. Avoid parroting class discussions. Write all-new original material for this paper. I most especially do not like reading my own ideas and statements in student papers.

The bulk of your paper, usually two-to-four solid pages of several body paragraphs (not three because you are not high school), should be literary analysis paragraphs, which you now have experience writing and have received feedback on. In a paper this short, there is no time for BS. Anything that isn’t doing literary analysis is detracting from your paper and lowering your grade. A good literary analysis paragraph does several things: it makes a claim, offers supporting evidence, analyzes how the literary language of the quotation supports the claim, and uses a concluding sentence that loops back to the topic sentence or the thesis of the paper. Your topic sentences need to 1) identify a specific instance of a kind of a literary strategy + 2) make a specific interpretive claim about how that specific literary strategy creates a secondary, non-literal meaning. (While the topic sentence structure parallels that of the thesis statement, none of your sentences should repeat. There will be an automatic letter grade deduction for any parts of your paper that you recycle within your paper.)

Your evidence should be a quotation that serves as an example of the topic sentence. Incorporate the quotation into your own sentence correctly and meaningfully. Use signal phrases and a variety of sentence structures to introduce and contextualize each quotation so readers understand what larger scene it is from, who says it (if it is dialogue), and what it relates to. Quote your passage accurately, using quotation marks for quotations four or fewer lines long, block quotations for passages more than four lines long, brackets to indicate changes you have made to the quotation, and ellipses to indicate omissions from the middle of the quotation. Include correctly-formatted MLA in-text citations with page numbers for each quotation. I expect perfection when it comes to incorporating quotations as mistakes, however unintentional, may make you vulnerable to claims of plagiarism. Your reader must never be confused about which words are yours and which are the source’s, what the quotation’s context is in the text you are analyzing, or how the quotation is relevant to your topic sentence.

To support your topic sentence claims, analyze how the language of each quotation works on a figurative or literary level and explain how it creates a level of meaning beyond the literal. Re-quote individual words and phrases as you analyze the language of each part of the passage. Conclusion sentences loop back to the topic sentence or synthesize that paragraph’s analysis and relate it to your thesis. In that sense, conclusion sentences mirror topic sentences in new, more emphatic language. (See previous resources for literary analysis paragraphs.)

Most of your grade relies on the body paragraphs. Your introduction is important because it lets your reader know what your thesis is for the whole paper, why they are reading your body paragraphs, and what they’re supposed to do with your body paragraphs. In a sense, your conclusion is less important because you have already done all the work of analysis. Your conclusion (like your introduction) should have no new evidence or lines of analysis . Your conclusion is a last chance to make a strong impression on your reader. While your body paragraphs analyze the text, your conclusion lets you synthesize the findings of your analysis into something greater. Think of it like this: your introduction is like your topic sentence in that it tells the reader what the whole paper is going to be about, and your conclusion is like the concluding sentence of a body paragraph in that it returns to the larger idea of the whole paper and why it is significant. Good conclusions return to ideas introduced in the introduction and drive home the ultimate point of the paper.

Warning: A grade of ZERO will be awarded to papers that do not fit this assignment, merely summarize the novel, or closely resemble ideas as outlined on websites like LitCharts, CliffsNotes, Schmoop, Bookrags, etc. Come up with your own ideas. Identify your own quotations to work with. As always: One letter grade off for each sentence with plagiarized elements, and plagiarize twice, fail the course.