IN COLLEGE,ANALYZING A LITERARY TEXT IS A CRITICAL,INTERPRETIVE PROCESS.FOR THAT REASON,THE PROCESS MUST BEGIN WITH A DEEP READING OF A POEM,SHORT STORY,PLAY,OR OTHER LITERARY WORK,SUCH AS LYRICS TO A SONG.

WHEN YOU WRITE AN ESSAY BASED ON A LITERARY SELECTION,YOU ASSUME THAT YOUR READING AUDIENCE HAS READ THE TEXT.YOUR AIM IS TO ILLUMINATE SOME NOT FULLY UNDERSTOOD DIMENSION OF THE WORK:THE MOTIVATIONS OF A PARTICULAR CHARACTER,THE IMAGE PATTERNS OF A LYRIC,RENAISSANCE PLAY,AND SO ON.

IN THIS WAY,LITERARY ANALYSIS IS A SPECIAL FORM OFTHE ANALYTICAL WRITING. CLOSELY LISTEN TO THE SONG,REPRODUCED IN THE LINKS BELOW. YOU WILL WRITE A SIX-PARA ESSAY,WHICH USES ONE OF THE FOCAL TOPICS. SELECTANY FOUROF THE CRITERIABELOW,ASTHEANCHOROFYOUR ANALYSIS.

PLEASE CLOSELY EXAMINE THE SONG,THE TOPICS,AND THE ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE, BEFORE BEGINNING YOUR WORK.

OVER THE SONG  AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by Ray Charles

 

ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE

 

PARA 1:  IDENTIFY THE SONG BY NAME AND AUTHOR.  BRIEFLY DISCUSS THE BACKGROUND, OR GENESIS OF THE SONG'S INCEPTION. BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE THE CONTENTS OF THE SONG. POSIT AN UNDERLINED THESIS STATEMENT, BASED ON THE ACTUAL TOPIC YOU CHOSE.

PARA'S 2, 3, 4, 5: BEGINNING WITH AN UNDERLINED TOPIC THESIS TO SUPPORT THE THESIS, MAKE THE CASE FOR, PROVE, THE THESIS STATEMENT. FULLY DEVELOP YOUR MIDDLE PARA'S, BASED ON THE TEST FOR PARAGRAPH COHERENCY:

T--TELL THE POINT (TOPIC SENTENCE)

E--EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY TERMS EXPRESSED IN THE TOPIC SENTENCES

S--SUPPORT THE POINT, WITH REASONS, EXAMPLES, NAMES, NUMBERS, THE FIVE SENSES

T--SHOW A TRANSITION BETWEEN WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE AND WHAT WILL FOLLOW

THERE SHOULD BE THREE POSITIVE CRITERIA, AND ONE NEGATIVE CRITERION (FOUR THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT THE WORK, AND ONE THING THAT IS NOT AS EFFECTIVE). SELECT ANY FOUR CRITERIA FROM LIST BELOW, AS THE BASIS FOR THE ANALYSIS.

PARA 6:  CONCLUSION--BRIEFLY SUMMARIZE YOUR MAIN POINTS, AND FORCEFULLY REASSERT THE THESIS STATEMENT, IN NEW TERMS.

Please underline the topic and thesis statement 

#USEOFIMAGES,ORPICTURE WORDS,TO CONVEYMEANING

#ARTIST AS CULTURAL CRITIC

#USE OF HUMOR 

#USEOFETHOS,ORPERSUASIONBY CHARACTER

#PATHOS,ORPERSUASIONBYEMOTION

#LOGOS,ORPERSUASIONBYLOGICORREASON

#TONE/ATTITUDEOFTHESINGER

#CLARITY OF OVER-ARCHINGTHEME

#MUSICALITY

#BELIEVABILITY

#AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

#THEATRICS

#LYRICS,ORLANGUAGEIN SONG

#NATIONALISTICTHEMES

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