Body Paragraph

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Body Paragraph 1

• Where do we go from here?

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Form and function

• Address the strongest element of your argument
• Address the first element mentioned in your
  thesis statement

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Form and Function the topic sentence

• Strong topic sentence that makes sense coming out
  of your thesis statement
• Strong topic sentence that focuses your reader
  and leaves NO QUESTION regarding what your
  paragraph will be about

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For instance

• Thesis statement Shakespeares focus on the
  development of Romeos tragic flaw and how it
  affects the rising action, climax, and resolution
  of the play unmistakably defines Romeo and Juliet
  as a tragedy.

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FBP topic sentence

• FBP topic sentence Romeos tragic flaw is
  keenly introduced through his reactions to a love
  lost over a character that the reader never
  knows, and it is this tragic flaw that engages
  the reader so heavily in the rising action of the
  play.

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Support

• Provide explanations, support, and explanations
  for your opinion in the first paragraph.
• REMEMBER this should be the strongest part of
  your argument.

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Quotes, they cant stand alone!

• DONT shove a quote into your paragraph without
  proper lead in and/or follow up.

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For example

• Romeos tragic flaw first appears when Romeo
  proclaims that sad hours seem long, and that
  he is Out of her favor where he is in love,
  suggesting that he is heartbroken over a girl
  (Rom. I.I.173). Romeos distraught nature so
  early in the play is intriguing because the
  reader is not privy to knowing over whom Romeo is
  heartbroken the reader engages in the story to
  discover how Romeos quirky character flaw
  unfolds.

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Working in your quotes, contd.

• The reader grows to know that Romeos tragic
  flaw is that he is a young man in love with the
  idea of love, who became enamored of the idea
  he had formed in his own mind (Thrasher 70).
  Shakespeare effectively engages the reader to
  invest in Romeos obsession with love, which
  quickly leads him to fall in love with

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See it?

• Juliet, furthering how his tragic flaw affects
  the rising action. Essentially, without the
  tragic flaw of being in love with the idea of
  love, Romeo would never have fallen for Juliet so
  quickly after the heartbreak of Rosaline, and
  without falling in love with Juliet, the play
  means nothing.

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Think youre done?

• Think again.
• Once your topic sentence, supporting details and
  explanations are all in place, you must consider
  an effective

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TRANSITION sentence

• The final sentence in your paragraph must serve
  two purposes
• Wrap up the preceding information
• Connect the preceding information to the new
  information coming in the second body paragraph.

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Transition Sentence

• While Romeos tragic flaw heavily influences how
  the rising action develops Romeo and Juliet as a
  tragedy, readers would be remiss in overlooking
  its effect on the climax of the play.