Definition:  Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Format: Your paper must be written in MLA format and must contain a Works Cited page along with in-text citations (or you will receive a zero).   Purpose:  Your primary writing goal is to help your readers better understand and appreciate the literary work that you interpret in your Literary Analysis Paper. Your goal is to experience a work of literature, understand its elements, and then write an essay analyzing particular aspects of the work. For example, in works of poetry, you might consider analyzing theme, sound devices, rhyme scheme, or a combination of these elements. Audience:  Your target audience is your teacher and other ENG 102 class members, so assume that your audience has already read the literary work in question – i.e. you do NOT have to give a lengthy detailed plot summary of the work.  Objectives The purpose of a literary analysis is to demonstrate why the author used specific ideas, word choices, or writing structures to convey his or her message.  Instructions Directions: In 500-800 words (or three or more well-written paragraphs), write about ONE of the following topics below.  Your paper must be written in MLA format and must contain a Works Cited page.  You may use one additional source other than the text to support your claims stated in your essay, but an additional source is NOT necessary for this essay. Title your work to reflect your topic. Do not use 1st or 2nd person pronouns in your essay. Your Turnitin similarity score should be below 25% (this includes AI). A clear and concise thesis statement should be at the end of your introductory paragraph. This is not a question. Make sure you incorporate textual evidence (quotes) in each body paragraph to support your thesis. Document any quotations/passages taken directly from the text using MLA formatted in-text citations.  Topic Choices Select one of the poems we have studied in class so far.  Identify its major theme.  Create a thesis statement that uses three dominant literary devices and the theme. Use the TP-CASTT method to help you. Example: Lydia Davis’s poem “Head, Heart” uses figurative language, simple diction, and personification to support the theme of a human being suffering from the loss of a loved one.  Poem Choices: Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Langston Hughes’s “Harlem” John Donne’s “Death, be not proud” Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool” Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Emily Dickinson’s “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers” Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear the Mask”  Submission Requirements Length: Your paper should be three to five paragraphs or more Times New Roman 12-point font. (500-800 words in length requirement.) Advice: Focus your paper on a limited number of points – that is don’t try to discuss all the literary elements of the work–then proceed to explain, support, and illustrate these limited number of interpretive points in-depth, as clearly, effectively, and specifically as you can. **As this is an analytical paper, you need to analyze the meaning of the poem by utilizing quotations or evidentiary facts from the text to back up your ideas.   PROOFREAD AND EDIT your Literary Analysis Paper before submission.      

Quantity (millions of students per year)Marginal private benefit (thousands ofdollars per student per year)Marginal social benefit (thousands of dollars per student per year)Marginal private cost (thousands of dollars per student per year)420288818251012162212161419142012161624101318The table above shows marginal costs and benefits of college education. The efficient level of enrollment is

Accessible description:  The figure indicates price and cost on the y-axis (dollars per ton of steel) and quantity on the x-axis (tons of steel per week). The demand curve slopes downward, and four points lie along the demand curve (0, 200) (2, 150), (4, 100) and (8, 0). The Marginal Social Cost curve slopes upward, and two points lie along the MSC curve (0, 100) and (2, 150). The Marginal Cost curve is upward sloping, and three points lie along the MC curve (0, 0), (2, 50) and (4, 100).  The MSC and the MC intersect the demand curve at (2, 150) and (4, 100) respectfully. The demand curve is also labeled the marginal social benefit curve, and the supply curve is also labeled the marginal cost curve.   f1q13g1.jpg The above figure shows the marginal benefit, marginal private cost and marginal social cost of producing steel. There is a marginal external ________ of ________ per ton.

When external costs are present

When a positive marginal external benefit from consuming a good or service is ignored, then the market is inefficient because

Contracts entered into by intoxicated persons are ________. 1.

Labor (workers per day)Quantity (T shirts per day)00110222330434535The table shows some data that describes Tom’s T-Shirts’ total product when Tom’s has 1 sewing machine. When 4 workers are employed

TechniqueNumber of workersUnits of capitalA13B15C23D32The table above shows four methods for producing 10 computer desks a day. If the cost of a worker is $100 a day and the cost of capital is $100 a day, the method that is economically efficient is

Ed is a freelance writer who could work for a newspaper at $25,000 a year but instead works for himself for $41,000 a year. His only business expenses are $1,000 for writing materials and $12,000 for rent. Ed’s normal profit is $1,000. Ed’s economic profit from working as a freelance writer is

________ software helps you manage e-mail, contacts, calendars, and tasks in the same application.