Literary Analysis Essay

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Literary Analysis Essay

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The Structure Of A Literary Analysis Essay 1.
An introduction. It is the first part of a
literary analysis essay where you give some
general information according to your theme. 2. A
body of the paper. It is the second part of your
essay which is a fundamental analysis of the text
where you give some arguments and examples. 3. A
conclusion. It is the third part of your essay
where you have to summarize everything.
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Recommendations For Writing A Literary Analysis
Essay

• Compose a creative title for your literary
  analysis essay.
• It means that your title involves not only the
  name of literary work, its author and the words
  the analysis of (e.g. The Analysis Of The
  Fairy Story By George Orwell Animal Farm), but
  also some key words to attract the readers
  attention (e.g. The Fairy Story Animal Farm By
  George Orwell The Authors Protest Against The
  Totalitarian System).

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2. Dont retell the literary work! You have to
explain the authors ideas (in the way how you
understand it), but not rewrite the plot.
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3. Use some direct quotations to support your own
thoughts about the literary work. However, avoid
oversaturation your literary analysis essay with
citing (especially with too long citations). Your
quotations must be short, bright and to the
point.
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4. Involve the reader in your own essay. You may
ask some questions to the potential reader or
suppose the thoughts and impressions of other
people.
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5. You may also read some critical literature on
your theme and compare your own ideas with
statements of other critics.
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Questions That Can Help You with Analyzing a Play

• 1. Who is the protagonist and who is the
  antagonist? Describe them. Is the protagonist
  absolutely positive? If your answer is Not,
  think about the next question what are his / her
  bad character traits? Is the antagonist
  absolutely negative? If your answer is Not,
  think about the next question what are his / her
  good character traits?
• 2. Write the theme and main ideas.
• 3. Is it a mental or physical action? How many
  acts and characters are in the play?
• 4. Describe the language of the play (if it is
  not a translation).

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Questions That Can Help You with Analyzing a Novel

• 1. The same as in analyzing a play Who is the
  protagonist and who is the antagonist? Describe
  them. Is the protagonist absolutely positive? If
  your answer is Not, think about the next
  question what are his / her bad character
  traits? Is the antagonist absolutely negative? If
  your answer is Not, think about the next
  question what are his / her good character
  traits?
• 2. Write the theme and main ideas.
• 3. Describe the narrative manner.
• 4. Describe the language of the novel (if it is
  not a translation).

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Questions That Can Help You with Analyzing a Poem
1. Who is the speaker (or who is the voice)? 2.
Write the theme and main ideas. 3. Describe the
form of the poem, its rhythm. 4. Describe the
language of the poem (if it is not a
translation). Are there some figures of speech
(metaphor, hyperbole, simile, personification,
metonymy and so on)? Write the examples of them.
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Remember that these three lists of questions are
not complete. You may compose your own questions
to write a literary analysis essay!
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