Planning and Developing Your Literature Analysis
In this activity, you will plan, draft, and revise a literature analysis on how authors develop mystery, tension, or surprise using authorial techniques such as order of events, pacing, structure, time manipulation, and language. Remember that your analysis will be a response to this question: How do authors create effects such as mystery, tension, or surprise in literature?
TIP: As needed, refer to the instruction and examples of literature analysis techniques in the previous slides and in the Lesson Activities from previous lessons in this unit. If you completed any graphic organizers throughout this unit, you may use them while planning and developing your analysis.
Part A – Select and Plan Authorial Techniques for Analysis
First, determine which authorial techniques you'll address in your essay and what textual evidence you'll include. Remember you'll need to address at least two techniques. If you need help planning these details, look back at the work you did on the graphic organizers in the unit. Use these guiding questions as you plan your analysis
Then, complete the table. For each authorial technique you've chosen to address, provide textual evidence from two or more texts in the unit that demonstrates the author's use of the technique in the first column. In the second column, describe the effect it creates, such as mystery, tension, or surprise.
TIP: If you need to directly reference the texts from this unit, you can access them in the Activity Resources.
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Part B – Plan the Structure of Your Analysis
Now, you'll use the information gathered in part A to plan how you'll organize and structure your literature analysis. In the table, describe what details and information you'll include in each section of your analysis. Include your plan for the introduction, body paragraphs, and conclusion of your literature analysis.
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Part C – Develop Your Literature Analysis
Use the planning you've done in parts A and B to develop a draft of your literature analysis. Use this Literature Analysis Rubric to guide you as you develop your draft.
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