Thesis Statements
Would the following earn a thesis statement score?
In the excerpt from The Rock Eaters, Peynado uses myriad literary devices to convey the narrator's complex experience of returning home
No, restates the prompt
SOAPSTONE (probably) stands for this
What is: Speaker, Occasion, Audience, Purpose, Subject, Tone
This character is responsible for most of the scheming in Shakespeare's Othello
Who is Iago?
What are thesis, evidence & commentary, and sophistication?
Stole fire from the gods
Prometheus
Your thesis statement can be multiple of these
Sentences!
This is the most common thing that might "shift" in a poem, and what you should try to identify
What is tone?
The author of "The Dead"
James Joyce
Complexity implies....
What is two or more things, usually conflicting?
Homer's two great epic poems detail the story of the Achilles' rage during the Trojan War and the subsequent journey home
What is the Odyssey and the Iliad?
What are some "strong" verbs to utilize instead of "says" or "uses"?
Emphasizes, reflects, implies, meditates, demonstrates, juxtaposes, parallels, produces etc.
This is the most common type of meter for English poets, especially Shakespeare
Tim O'Brien has this to say about the nature of truth in storytelling
What is story truth vs happening truth?
What works could you use for this frq#3 prompt?
In his 2004 novel Magic Seeds, V. S. Naipaul writes: “It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That’s where the mischief starts. That’s where everything starts unravelling.” Select a novel, play, or epic poem in which a character holds an “ideal view of the world.” Then write an essay in which you analyze the character’s idealism and its positive or negative consequences. Explain how the author’s portrayal of this idealism illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
(your answer here)
Moses emancipates the Jewish people of Egypt from Pharoah with God's aid and ten plagues in this book
What is Exodus?
Your thesis should establish this concept that carries through all of your body paragraphs
What is line of reasoning, golden thread, throughline
The Romantic poets (Keats, Shelley, Byron etc.) placed great emphasis on these concepts.
What is nature, human emotion, individualism, the sublime?
Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" might belong to these literary genres / movements
What is absurdism, expressionism, modernism?
Deconstruct this prompt, what are the main parts you must answer?
Palestinian American literary theorist and cultural critic Edward Said has written that “Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home: its essential sadness can never be surmounted.” Yet Said has also said that exile can become “a potent, even enriching” experience.
Select a novel, play, or epic in which a character experiences such a rift and becomes cut off from “home,” whether that home is the character’s birthplace, family, homeland, or other special place. Then write an essay in which you analyze how the character’s experience with exile is both alienating and enriching, and how this complex experience illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole.
1. Complex experience of exile (alienating and enriching)
2. Character's rift from home
3. How this experience relates to the work as a whole.
The story of these characters offers the first example of homicide / fratricide
Cain & Abel
Construct a thesis based on the following prompt for 1984
The world of 1984 is one of extreme isolation, in a well written essay, analyze the complex feelings towards love & friendship that Winston experiences over the course of the novel.
(your thesis here)
This rhyme scheme is an example of this type of sonnet:
ABBAABBACDECDE
What is Italian Sonnet?
These three works that inspire and educate the creature in Shelley's Frankenstein, name at least one
Paradise Lost, Sorrows of Young Werther, Plutarch's Lives of Noble Romans and Greeks?
Though you may not be familiar with the given poem, what assumptions can you make as to its content? What do you already know about Shakespeare?
In the following speech, Cardinal Wolsey considers his sudden downfall from his position as advisor to the king. Spokesmen for the king have just left Wolsey alone on stage. Read the speech carefully. Then write a well-organized essay in which you analyze how Shakespeare uses elements such as allusion, figurative language, and tone to convey Wolsey’s complex response to his dismissal from court
1. Complex (mixed) response to dismissal
2. He's alone (Soliloquy)
3. He is going to make allusions to things (likely bible or mythology or history)
John Milton's epic poem details Satan's arrival in hell, the temptation of Adam and Eve, and their eventual casting out from the garden of Eden
What is Paradise Lost?