Short Essa Assignment ( The Story of an Hour Short story by Kate Chopin)

Short Story: The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin For this assignment, you will write an 800-1000 word (not including the Works Cited) literary analysis of any short story published in Compact Literature. A good literary analysis includes study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature, not a summary. You should include as many literary elements as possible to support your analysis of the story’s meaning or theme. Some examples of literary elements you may choose to discuss in relation to your analysis are plot, character, setting, point of view, language, imagery, figures of speech, symbol, and especially theme. Please keep in mind that this assignment does not call for plot summary at all because your audience has read the short story you are analyzing. In every body paragraph, you should use quotations and paraphrases from the short story text to support your analysis. In at least one body paragraph, you should also use quotations and paraphrases from one work of literary criticism of the short story. For examples of integrating quotations from outside sources into an essay. Your goal is to write a well-organized, well-developed, grammatically and mechanically acceptable essay. Guidelines: 1. Format your paper according to MLA format, 8th edition. Detailed guidelines and instructions can be found in the “MLA Style Instructions” folder on the “Getting Started/Course Info” page. Follow these guidelines carefully. 2. Title your essay creatively–do not give your essay the same title as the short story you are analyzing. 3. Use present tense, and write in third person (Use “the reader” or “readers,” not I, me, my, you, your, or yourself). 4. The first time you refer to the author in a sentence, use his or her full name. For example: “William Faulkner set his novels and short stories in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.” After that, only use his or her last name in a sentence: “Faulkner reveals at the end of ‘A Rose for Emily’ that Miss Emily Grierson was a necrophiliac.” 5. Place the short story title inside quotation marks. Do not italicize it. 6. Include an introduction with an audience attention-getter and a thesis statement, write well developed supporting paragraphs with details and quotations from the short story and supporting evidence from the database literary criticism, transition smoothly between paragraphs and ideas, and write a conclusion that draws the analysis to a close, not merely restates the thesis or content of the earlier paragraphs. 7. Integrate quotations smoothly into your sentences, punctuating and citing them correctly. Do not use long block quotations. Examples of integrating quotations are found in the textbook chapters mentioned above. 8. Use parenthetical in-text citations for quotations and paraphrases.