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Literature Essay Lecture 20

Literature Essay Lecture 20. Recap What is an Expository Essay? What are the key words that show it is an expository essay? Structure of the Expository

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Literature Essay

Lecture 20

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Recap• What is an Expository Essay?• What are the key words that show it is an expository essay?• Structure of the Expository Essay• A Complete Argument• PACO- Technique for Brainstorming• Steps for writing Expository Essay• Types of Expository Essay?• Key Points to Consider• Dos and Don’ts• Common Mistakes• Example: The Influences of Culture and its Influence

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What is Literature Essay?

• The essay dealing with a piece of writing:– a novel– a short story– article, whatever

• Most commonly presupposes some kind of analysis.

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Literature Essay….

• …is an essay that shows writer's

understanding of the author's point of view

and the ability to explain it in a bright way.

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Parts of Literature Essay

• Introduction part poses a question and

presents thesis statement

• while the conclusion summarizes it.

• It is possible to emphasize why the topic of

literature review is important in conclusion

keeping the style of an essay formal.

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How to Write Literature Essay?

• Introduction: Be Brief; give some suggestion

of the direction you intend to

take in your essay. Indicate

the aspects of the book you

intend to deal with.

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How to Write Literature Essay?

• Paragraphing: In your plan you should identify very clearly around six distinct points you intend to make and the

specific parts of the text that you intend to examine in some detail. When writing your essay you should devote one or two paragraphs to each point. Try to make smooth links between paragraphs.

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How to Write Literature Essay?

Evidence: When you make a point – you must prove it.

• Just as a lawyer in court must produce evidence to support his case, so you must produce evidence to prove the comments you make about:

» characters, » relationships, » themes, » style etc.

• When you make a point, refer to the text. give an example to support what you say. Better still, use a quote.

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Quotes: Remember to lay out quotes correctly. Start a new line and indent like this:

writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing writing:

"quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote quote“

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Remember to introduce the quote with a colon and use quotation marks. It is important to lay out quotes correctly because it shows you are professional about what you are doing. Keep them short - no more than three or four lines each.

How to Write Literature Essay?

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• Selection: Avoid the trap of just re-telling

the story. The important thing is

to be selective in the way you

use the text. Only refer to those

parts of the book that help you

to answer the question.

How to Write Literature Essay?

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How to Write Literature Essay?

• Answer the question: It sounds obvious, but it's so easy

to forget the question and go off at a digression. When you have finished

a paragraph read it through and ask yourself. "How does this contribute to answering the question?" If it doesn't, change it so that it does address the question directly.

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How to Write Literature Essay?

• Conclusion: At the end, try to draw all the

threads of your various points

together. This should be the

part of your essay, which

answers the question most

directly and forcefully.

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• Style: Keep it formal. Try to avoid making it chatty. If you imagine you are a lawyer in court trying to prove your point of view about a book, that might help to set the right tone.

How to Write Literature Essay?

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How to Write Literature Essay?

• Be creative: Remember you do not have to agree with other people's points of view about literature. If your ideas are original or different, so long as

you develop them clearly, use evidence intelligently and argue persuasively, your point of view will be respected. We want literature to touch you personally and it will often affect different people in different ways.

Be creative!!!

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Checklist after writing your essay

• Have you:– Put the full title of the question and the date at

the top?– Written in clear paragraphs?– Produced evidence to prove all your points?– Used at least five quotes?– Answered the question?

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Types of Literature Essay• Novel Essay

• Theme• Plot• Setting• Characters• style; fair divisions for any essay.

• Order and emphasis will depend on bias of question.• If the question is about theme, talk about it in the

introduction, then discuss, one per paragraph, how the other aspects contribute to it, and conclude by talking about the success or otherwise of the author in communicating his/her theme.

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Types of Literature Essay

Drama Essay• Theme• Plot• Setting• Characters• technique

– If the question is about technique, talk about how

it affects the others-one per paragraph.

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Types of Literature Essay• Poetry essay– Theme– Style– technique (include such aspects as alliteration,

assonance, versification, rhyme, rhythm, where appropriate).

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• The Titles of Plays, Novels, Magazines, Newspapers, Journals (things that can stand by themselves) are underlined or italicized.

• If you're using a word processor or you have a fancy typewriter, use italics, but do not use both underlines and italics. (Some instructors have adopted rules about using italics that go back to a time when italics on a word processor could be hard to read, so you should ask your instructor if you can use italics. Underlines are always correct.)

• The titles of poems, short stories, and articles (things that do not generally stand by themselves) require quotation marks.

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Tools of the Trade: Subjects and Verbs• Whenever possible, use strong subjects and active

constructions, rather than weak verbal nouns or abstractions and weak passive or linking verbs: – instead of "Petruchio's denial of Kate of her basic necessities would

seem cruel and harsh...," try "By denying Kate the basic necessities of life, Petruchio appears cruel and harsh--but he says that he is just putting on an act."

• Don't forget that words and even phrases can serve as strong sentence subjects: – "Petruchio's 'I'll buckler thee against a million' injects an unexpectedly

chivalric note, especially since it follows hard on the heels of his seemingly un-gentlemanly behavior."

• And remember--use regular quotation marks unless you're quoting material that contains a quotation itself.

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Topics for Literature Essay

• Literature essay topics help you to narrow down on a certain idea or detail, it is important to choose the essay topics you are interested in. Below are the examples of good literature essay topics:– Why does Hamlet Delay Taking Revenge on Claudius– The Characters of Hamlet and Horatio– Why did Ophelia Commit a Suicide– The Rules of Marriage in 14th Century– The Tragic Love of Romeo and Juliet– Pushkin in the Russian Literature– The Poetry that has a Special Meaning for You

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Example

Hamlet

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Summary

• What is Literature Essay?• Parts of Literature Essay• How to Write Literature Essay?• Checklist after writing your essay• Types of Literature Essay• Topics for Literature Essay• Example; Hamlet

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References

• http://essayinfo.com/essays/literature_essay.php#.UNtC9-Q3te8

• http://shakespearean.org.uk/ham1-haz.htm