Paragraphs
This is the first sentence of a body paragraph and states the paragraph's focus.
What is a topic sentence?
This is how long a thesis statement should be.
One or two sentences.
This character dies in the end of "The Story of an Hour."
Who is Louise Mallard?
This is an acceptable way to use generative AI in this class.
This is the part of the introductory paragraph that grabs the reader's attention.
What is a hook?
This is where you'll usually place a thesis statement.
What is the last sentence of the introduction?
In "Hills Like White Elephants," this is the only character to receive a name.
Who is Jig/the girl?
This is taking the ideas or words of another source without citation.
What is plagiarism?
You can use these words to connect paragraphs and ideas within paragraphs.
What are transitions?
A thesis should make this in a literary analysis paper.
What is a claim or interpretation?
In "Cathedral," the narrator gets his initial ideas about blind people from this source.
What are the movies?
This is the citation style used in this class and in the humanities in general.
What is MLA?
This is the main type of evidence in a literary analysis paper.
What are quotations?
True or false: A thesis should make a broad, general claim to give you enough to write about.
What is false?
In "Birdsong," the narrator's lover offers to buy her this.
What is a car?
You can use this method to introduce, present, and explain quotations.
What is the quote sandwich?
True or false: the main goal of a literary analysis is to summarize the plot.
What is false?
You can use this method to see if your thesis is too big (hint: the title is a fairy tale)
What is the Goldilocks method?
"Birdsong" takes place in this location.
What is Lagos, Nigeria?
This "signals" that a quotation is about to appear and sometimes contains the writer's name.
What is a signal phrase?