Instructions: Choose ONE of the following prompts and write…

Instructions: Choose ONE of the following prompts and write a well-organized essay with a clear thesis statement and specific textual evidence to support your analysis: Option A: Compare and contrast the treatment of father-child relationships in “Barn Burning” and “Those Winter Sundays.” Consider how both texts use point of view, tone, and symbolism to explore this theme. or Option B: Analyze how setting functions as both a physical location and a symbolic element in either “The Veldt” or “A Pair of Tickets.” Discuss how the author uses setting to develop both character and theme. Grading Criteria for Essay: Clear thesis statement (3 points) Effective use of textual evidence (5 points) Analysis of literary devices (5 points) Organization and coherence (4 points) Grammar and mechanics (3 points) Requirements: Write in complete sentences using Standard American English Support all claims with specific textual evidence Cite sources using MLA format Demonstrate understanding of literary terms and concepts covered in class Show critical thinking in analyzing relationships between literary elements

Read “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats and write a…

Read “The Second Coming” by William Butler Yeats and write a well-organized paragraph analyzing how the poet uses imagery and symbolism to develop the theme. Support your analysis with specific examples from the text. “The Second Coming” By William Butler Yeats Turning and turning in the widening gyre    The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere    The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst    Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand.    The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out    When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert    A shape with lion body and the head of a man,    A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,    Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it    Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.    The darkness drops again; but now I know    That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?