Once you have chosen your element and your story, write a 1 ? -page response that does the following:
Identifies the ways in which the element is represented throughout the poem
Examines how the element is being used in the poem to convey a deeper meaning, provoke an emotional response, or establish an emotional connection between the work and the audience.
Analyzes how the poet utilizes that element to support a specific theme/meaning
Steps to Analyzing:
Set-up and present quote: make sure every quote has a signal phrase that prepares the reader for it, either with a noun and verb or sentence summary followed by a colon
Context for quote: make the quote make sense in the grand scheme of the short story. What is going on in this section of the text?
Analyze: what is going on on a technical level? Explain everything that you see in your quotes.
Explain: How does your analysis fit with YOUR argument/claim?
Quoting:
Any direct quote (whether a full sentence, partial sentence, or quoted phrase) requires a parenthetical in-text citation.
When citing poetry, you will cite the line number, not the page number
When quoting multiple lines of poetry, separate the lines with a forward slash: /
EX: ?Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both? (lines 1-2).
