[Get Solution] Literary Analysis
Include the entire passage in your document. This does not count toward page length. Typed, double-spaced, 12-pt, Times New Roman or Calibri font, 1 margins. You are to do no outside research for this assignment, outside of the notes in your textbook and a good dictionary (preferably the Oxford English Dictionary, The foundation of any good piece of literary analysis is close reading. In close reading, we examine the specific language of a small portion of text to determine how that language creates meaning and its larger significance. First, choose a passage from either Behns Oroonoko, The Disappointment, or Wilmots The Disabled Debauchee. Use the questions below to help guide your reading. Then, using the passage as evidence, explain how your reading supports a larger theme within the novel. Use quotes from the passage to back up your points. Remember, you have to explain not simply what the text says but how it says it. Use these questions to guide you: What text includes this passage? Be sure to use the texts title and author. What words or ideas seem significant? What is the immediate context? In other words, what is going on in the narrative at this moment in the text? How does this passage fit into the larger text? How is it significant in terms of your understanding of the text? Why is this passage or the issue it raises more broadly significant? Why is it interesting or important not simply in terms of the text but in terms of themes you find important?
