Requirements
-5-7 paragraphs following MLA format
Works Cited Page is required since you will be quoting and paraphrasing at least one scholarly source (the text you are analyzing).
*Helpful Hint-Analysis in literature focuses on the effect on the audience and/or text whether actual or intended.
Prompt: Write an essay in which you choose 2-4 elements or characteristics of literature (faith, knowledge, thought, feeling, empire, money, manners, satire, or theatrics) from the Restoration and 18th Century and analyze their function or effectiveness in one or more of the works we have studied in class.
Write well, and may the process be with you!
Rubric (available in BB) includes:
● MLA format-Paper Requirements
o Heading, headers and paper formatted correctly.
o In-text citations should be employed throughout.
● Writing Style
o Essay must thoroughly address prompt.
o Paper should be well-organized and thoughtfully arranged.
o Style should be formal-Third person POV only!
o Overall tone should be academic.
o Every claim should be justified. Explain, justify, prove, and/or establish clear connections!
● Conventions
o Paper should be free from grammar and spelling errors.
o Contractions should be avoided
4 references and 2 should come from the textbook – The Longman Anthology of British Literature.