ENG/270

LITERARY INTERPRETATION AND ANALYSIS

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ENG 270 Week 1 Reader Response Journal

Resource: Sample essays in Ch. 13 of Writing Essays about Literature

Write a journal entry of at least 350 words reflecting on the importance and value of literature. Answer the following in your reflection:

• How is literature important for society?
• How is literature important for the individual?
• How does analyzing literature contribute to this value?

Note. Your journal entries will be graded on two criteria: how well you completed the tasks assigned and how well-written is the journal entry.

• Task completion includes completeness and strength of reasoning. For example, did you answer all of the questions, did you explain your reasoning, and did you give supporting examples?
• Quality of writing will be judged on clarity, organization, and mechanics. As this is a journaling exercise, you are not expected to adhere to any style guides for formatting; however, any outside citations you choose to include must be cited properly.

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ENG 270 Week 1 Literary Elements

Select one work from Literature and Composition.

Identify, in a 350- to 700-word paper, the literary elements present in your selected work.

Cite at least two academic sources from the University Library to support your claims. These are in addition to citing the textbooks as sources.

Format your paper consistent with MLA guidelines. (Note: Students who are not enrolled in the BA in English program may use APA formatting without penalty.

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ENG 270 Week 2 Reader Response Journal

Choose one short story from this week’s required readings.

Write a journal entry of at least 350 words explaining the importance of the literary elements in this story. Include the following elements:

• Plot
• Setting
• Characterization
• Theme
• Writing style

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ENG 270 Week 2 Short Fiction Analysis Paper

Select one of the short stories in the reading list for Week 2.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word essay in which you explain the theme of the story.

• Create a thesis statement that makes a claim about the overriding theme of the story from your perspective.
• Support your thesis with at least two academic sources from the University Library. These are in addition to citing the textbooks as sources.
• Identify and explain the use of significant literary elements in the story and how they contribute to the overall theme.

Format your paper consistent with MLA guidelines. (Note. Students who are not enrolled in the BA in English program may use APA formatting without penalty.)

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ENG 270 Week 3 Reader Response Journal

Choose one poem from this week’s required readings.

Write a journal entry, of at least 350 words, reflecting on this poem. What is the importance of the literary elements in this poem? Include the following literary elements in your reflection:

• Literal and figurative language
• Symbolism
• Form

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ENG 270 Week 3 Poetry Analysis Paper

Select one of the poems from the Week 3 reading list.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you explicate the poem and interpret its theme.

• Create a thesis statement that makes a claim about the meaning of the poem.
• Support your thesis with at least two academic sources from the University Library. These are in addition to citing the textbooks as sources.
• Identify and explain the use of significant poetic devices and elements and how they contribute to the overall theme.

Format your paper consistent with MLA guidelines. (Note. Students who are not enrolled in the BA in English program may use APA formatting without penalty.)

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ENG 270 Week 4 Reader Response Journal

Choose one of the plays from this week’s required readings.

Write a journal entry, of at least 350 words, reflecting on this play and the use of literary elements by the author. Include the following literary elements:

• Dialogue
• Narration
• Characterization
• Plot
• Setting
• Theme

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ENG 270 Week 4 Drama Analysis Paper

Select one of the plays on the reading list for Week 4.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word essay in which you explain the theme or themes.

• Create a thesis statement that makes a claim about the overriding theme of the play from your perspective.
• Support your thesis with at least two academic sources from the University Library. These are in addition to citing the textbooks as sources.
• Identify and explain the use of significant literary elements in the play and how they contribute to the overall theme.
• Explain the significance of the plot, setting, and characterization in the play.

Format your paper consistent with MLA guidelines. (Note. Students who are not enrolled in the BA in English program may use APA formatting without penalty.)

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ENG 270 Week 5 Reader Response Journal

Write a journal entry. of at least 350 words. explaining how your views on the importance of literature have changed through this course.

Answer the following questions in your explanation:

• Explain how the study of literary theories changed your understanding of the value of literature?
• Explain how the study of the different genres changed your understanding of the value of literature?
• Explain how writing about literature changed your understanding of the value of literature?
• Explain why you think literature and the study of literature is valuable?

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ENG 270 Week 5 Form and Meaning Paper

Select one of the literary works on the reading list for this course.

Write a 1,400- to 1,750-word essay in which you analyze how it uses literary elements and figurative language to communicate its meaning.

To complete this final synthesizing essay, select one work from those assigned for the course and perform the following:

• Read it carefully, and reread it, paying particular attention to literary elements and figurative language.
• Analyze how your chosen work uses literary elements and figurative language. As you do so, pay attention to any patterns used to unite and/or organize these choices.  (For example, are all the metaphors drawn from nature? Or is it more complicated, with one set of metaphors drawn from nature and one from a specific religion’s tradition?)
• Research your chosen author, to provide context for your analysis.
• Evaluate your chosen work for meaning or multiple meanings. These meanings might be biographical to the author, historical, philosophical, or fall into some other category. Meanings can be literal or symbolic, or both literal and symbolic at the same time. Some works have one fairly unified meaning; some have multiple meanings. You’ll want to identify all major meanings and how they relate to one another.
• Explain how the work uses literary elements and figurative language to shape and contribute to the meaning. If the literary elements and the figurative language clash at any points, you’ll want to identify those points, and explain the effect of the clash. If the literary elements and figurative language communicate one meaning, but the denotative content of the work communicate a different meaning, you’ll want to identify these points and explain their effect.

If the literary elements and figurative language used in your chosen work are part of a specific genre, tradition, or larger context, make sure you identify these elements and explain their effects. (For example, a sonnet follows a specific rhyme scheme. If you’re analyzing a sonnet, you’d show the effects of the specific rhymes in your chosen poem, but you’d also explain that this is a standard structure for the sonnet, following models established by Shakespeare. If your chosen poet wrote 17 poems using flower imagery, and this is the 17th of those poems, indicate how this affects the meaning, power, or impact of the poem.)

Support your analysis with at least three academic sources from the University Library. These are in addition to citing the textbooks as sources.

Format your paper consistent with MLA guidelines. (Note. Students who are not enrolled in the BA in English program may use APA formatting without penalty.)

Submit your assignment to the Assignment Files tab.