The Seven Steps

What Is a Literary Essay? A literary analysis essay is an academic assignment that examines and evaluates a work of literature or a given aspect of a specific literary piece. It tells about the big idea or theme of a book you’ve read. The literary essay may be about any book or any literary topic imaginable.

Literary techniques are specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text.

1. Ask questions.
2. Collect evidence.
3. Construct a thesis.
4. Develop and organize arguments.
5. Write the introduction.
6. Write the body paragraphs.
7. Write the conclusion.

Types of Literary Analyses

• Cultural Analysis. Cultural literary analysis seeks to explain a new understanding of a text using objects, practices, and ideologies representative of a culture’s values, beliefs, and laws.
• Feminist Analysis.
• New Criticism.
• Psychological Analysis.
• Reader Response Analysis.

The six major elements of fiction are character, plot, point of view, setting, style, and theme.

What are the 4 elements of literature?

• Plot.
• Point.
• Setting.
• Theme.

As with narrative, there are “elements” of poetry that we can focus on to enrich our understanding of a particular poem or group of poems. These elements may include, voice, diction, imagery, figures of speech, symbolism and allegory, syntax, sound, rhythm and meter, and structure.

Imagery. The only thing that will make your poetry powerful and enticing is great imagery. This goes along with the line you always hear “show don’t tell.” Only with poetry, it’s ALL show and NO tell. For the love of god, don’t just say that love hurts, give us a metaphor.

The elements of poetry include meter, rhyme, form, sound, and rhythm (timing). Different poets use these elements in many different ways.

The elements of poetry include meter, rhyme, form, sound, and rhythm (timing). Different poets use these elements in many different ways. Some poets do not use rhyme at all. Some use couplets, while others may rhyme the second and fourth lines only…in a stanza.

Answer. The elements of poetry are used by successful poets to convey certain meanings and themes. While there are many poetic elements and devices, many poets are selective in their usage of elements and devices. They often choose the tool that achieves the effect they want to convey.

15 Types of Poetic Forms

• Blank verse. Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter—almost always iambic pentameter—that does not rhyme.
• Rhymed poetry. In contrast to blank verse, rhymed poems rhyme by definition, although their scheme varies.
• Free verse.
• Epics.
• Narrative poetry.
• Haiku.
• Pastoral poetry.
• Sonnet.

Structure is all about pinning down the framework of a text, including its sequence of events, how they are told, and how they are all threaded together, whereas form deals with the genre of a text, and how it appears in a certain work of literature. …

Poetic Devices

• Alliteration.
• Assonance.
• Imagery.
• Metaphor.
• Onomatopoeia.
• Personification.
• Refrain.
• Rhyme.

Identify six poetic devices: alliteration, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, rhyme, and simile. Determine the purpose of poetic devices as either emphasizing meaning or the sound of words. Respond to a journal entry. Transfer learning while becoming the “teacher” of an assigned poetic device.