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English Department

Essay Writing and Literary Analysis

G. P. Vanier Secondary School
Text Box:

Givens of literary analysis

 

         Use the third person voice

                                    Avoid first person ( I )

                                    Avoid second person ( you )
Text Box: Use formal diction Avoid slang Avoid a conversational style Text Box: Assume the reader of your analysis knows neither the task you were given nor the literature you read. Include enough information for this type of audience by including the context for each point you make.

Include embedded quotations as evidence or proofs for the claims you make. 

         Embedded quotations are          integrated into the sentences          you write, rather than being          plopped in on their own.

 
Text Box: Narrative Essay - hook sentences The following are opening sentences from students’ narrative essays. Which are good hook sentences in that they engage a reader making them want to read further? How brave are you? Would you do something ridiculous, absurd, or even dangerous just to say you did? Hiding on my shelf, far from hands in my room, was my memento. A baseball: torn, dirty, and used. It was born in Detroit Michigan in 1964. When most people think of ballet, they thing of little girls in tutus skipping around a room, but, in my mind, that is not what it is. In this picture I am about two years old. If anyone says that you will not lose a finger in a bike chain, there are surely talking b.s. Sitting on the desk in front of me is a worn out, old weathered wheel off my first skateboard. The little dried out purple flower is very special to me because my dad gave it to me. This is a hair clip. Growing up in a country that only saw harsh one hundred and twenty degree sandstorms, I never got the joy of playing in the snow. This essay is going to be about the hair from my first haircut. Can an object really be lucky or just a crutch for building confidence? If you knew me well enough, you’d know that I go nowhere without a certain necklace. Some people think that dance is a “wimpy” sport, or that it’s not even a sport at all. Many people have items from their childhood. There were three words I dreaded for my mommy and daddy to say every night, “Time for bed.”