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Looking at the Genre............................................................................. 1
Reading a Work of Literature................................................................ 3
Going Online: Using the OED.......................................................... 5
Terms for Literary Analysis................................................................ 5
For Practice............................................................................................ 8
“Yours” by Mary Robinson................................................................ 9
For Critical Inquiry.............................................................................. 11
Working Together................................................................................ 12
Looking at the Genre........................................................................... 12
Analysis............................................................................................... 25
For Critical Inquiry.............................................................................. 25
Writing About Literature..................................................................... 26
Writing Assignment.......................................................................... 26
Invention.............................................................................................. 26
Exploring Your Topic....................................................................... 26
Activity 1.......................................................................................... 26
Activity 2.......................................................................................... 27
Cultural and Historical Perspectives................................................. 27
Going Online: Resources on the Web............................................... 28
Planning............................................................................................... 29
Developing a Claim.......................................................................... 29
Activity 3.......................................................................................... 30
Arranging Your Material.................................................................. 31
Activity 4.......................................................................................... 32
Activity 5.......................................................................................... 32
Strategies for Organizing a Literary Analysis Essay........................ 33
Activity 6.......................................................................................... 34
Going Online: Carefully Choosing and Using Information............. 35
Working Draft..................................................................................... 35
Paragraph Development.................................................................... 35
Citing from Literary Texts................................................................ 36
Peer Commentary................................................................................ 40
Revising............................................................................................... 41
Connections and Coherence................................................................ 42
Writing Inventory................................................................................ 43
Writing a Literary Analysis Paper as an In-class Assignment............. 43
Preparing to Write............................................................................. 44
Writing Exam Answers..................................................................... 44
Activity 7.......................................................................................... 45
Writing a Good In-class Literary Analysis....................................... 46
“After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost............................................ 48
“To Autumn” by John Keats............................................................ 49
“Because I could not stop for Death–” by Emily Dickinson......... 51
Activity 8.......................................................................................... 52
Looking at the Genre of In-class Literary Analysis.......................... 52
A Closing Note.................................................................................... 53
