Basic Literary analysis paper structure

Basic Literary analysis paper structure

Single piece (one poem, or one short story, or one novel, or play, or film)

Introduction: summarizing the story line; place/setting/most important characters/you can give a basic chronological story line for the reader (provide background material) – thesis statement

Body paragraphs (3 points to support your thesis)

Topic sentence that introduces the point

Textual evidence is a direct quote or at times you will paraphrase

Commentary or analysis of that “evidence” must be talked about after

Conclude

Conclude –now summarize the three points you made

Focus on our paper is to have works speak to a time period

Introduction: What is the late Romantic period as it applies to America? – Thesis statement: In both Emily Dickenson’s and Walt Whitman’s works, each author embodies the spirit of the period in ……(fill in the blank).

Choose 4-5 poems to speak to your thesis statement (apply the body paragraph structure above)

Conclude

According to Whitman in “Captain! My Captain!, “Where on the deck my Captain lies,/Fallen cold and dead