Introduction
Alignment
For this assignment, you will write a complete four-paragraph essay on any story you read for this course, except for “The Yellow Wallpaper” and for the story you read for Dropbox 5.5.
Upon successful completion of this assignment you will be able to:

• Identify various literary devices (such as characterization, setting, and/or symbolism)
• Explain how literary devices are used to communicate truths about humankind (and perhaps about God) in a work of fiction.
• Construct an organized, coherent, specifically supported literary analysis.
• Analyze the message of a literary text using specific biblical principles.

Resources

• Textbook: Pearson Custom Introduction to Literature
• File: Literary Analysis: Structural Outline
• File: Literary Analysis: Process
• Bible: Bible Gateway

Instructions

1. Write a four-paragraph, two-to-three-page paper on any short story you have read for this course—other than “The Yellow Wall-paper” or the story you read for Dropbox 5.5.
2. Literary Devices: You must use two separate literary devices to prove your thesis. Your first body paragraph should focus on one device, and your second body paragraph on a different device. (If you wish to focus on characterization in both body paragraphs, you must focus exclusively on a different character in each paragraph.)
3. Revision and Expansion of “Sweat” Assignment: Read “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston (pp. 225-234). https://www.enotes.com/topics/sweat
   You may base this paper on the Hurston characterization paragraphs that you wrote for Workshop Four if you wish. If you do so, however, you will be expected to fully and carefully respond to your instructor’s feedback on those two paragraphs you wrote last week.
4. Use this Literary Analysis Structural Outline as a template for your paper. Treat the structural outline like a contract each individual piece of which you must try your best to carefully and creatively fulfill.
5. You are encouraged to use this Literary Analysis Writing Process document to walk you through an effective pre-writing, drafting, revision, and editing process.