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Anonymous

literary analysis paper?

so i’m supposed to write. But I don’t exactly know how to? i mean what is literary analysis?

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A few days ago
thatguyjoe

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Literary analysis is coming up with some ideas about a book (not just summarizing the plot) and writing about them. There is all sorts of literary analysis. You can give your impression of it as a reader and explain why you feel as you do. You could discuss the author’s theme and how it’s developed using various writing tools such as narrative perspective, imagery, sentence structure, idiom, etc. You could pick one theme of your own that interested you- about a character’s development or about how the book fits into a historical period and develop that. You could write from a particular critical perspective- how feminists or marxists or freudians, for instance, would view the literature in question.

You need to think of something to say about the book, come up with at least three arguments in favor of what you are saying, and write yourself an essay.

these might be of some help:

http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/lit/adv/lit.papers.html

http://www.rscc.cc.tn.us/owl&writingcenter/OWL/ElementsLit.html

http://lrc.sierra.cc.ca.us/writingcenter/litcrit.htm

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