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Purpose: Demonstrate your ability to analyze literary techniques and devices while reading The Count of Monte Cristo.

Assessment: Multiple choice test on the SECOND day of September to assess your completion of the assignment and reading comprehension

Directions: Following the format and example below, please complete the following assignment while reading The Count of Monte Cristo.

You will write three literary analysis responses for three required passages. Each response must answer the question: What is the effect of your chosen literary device in this passage? For each of the three given passages, select one of the literary devices from the given list and make an assertion about the device. Then, give 3 textual references (quotations) as evidence from the given passage which supports your assertion. Then, provide at least 1 sentence of commentary (analysis) about the effect of this literary device for each textual reference. Finally, provide a concluding commentary that summarizes the effect of the literary device for all three pieces of evidence.

Format: Your response should be typed, 12 point Times New Roman, and double spaced. Each response should be between 300-350 words.


Due Date: Assignment is due the SECOND of September class day of English class. NOTE: TRANSFER STUDENTS HAVE ONE MONTH TO COMPLETE THE ASSIGNMENT.





List of Literary Devices: Select one of the literary devices for each given passage. Use a different literary device for each passage you write about.
Characterization
Flashback
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Point of View
Theme

Required Passages for Analysis:
Pages 27-29: Beginning with “Now,” said Villefort, “answer me frankly, not as a prisoner before…” and end on page 29 at “Oh, father, will you always be an obstacle always be an obstacle to my happiness? Must I struggle eternally against your past?”

Pages 392-394: Beginning with “ Certainly. When I told you I expected this…” and end on page 394 at “Home, home!” he muttered, almost unintelligibly.”


Pages 457-459: Beginning with “Above the room in which Debray had just divided…” and end on page 459 at “Taking his mother’s hand and pressing it tenderly, he said, “Yes, you’ll live.”

Explanation of Assertion, Evidence, Commentary:

Assertion: The assertion is a debatable statement that is making a claim (like an opinion). Your assertion will answer the given prompt. In 1 sentence, identify the literary device you noticed in the passage and how this literary device contributes to the plot, theme, or style of the novel.

Evidence: The evidence is the proof that supports your assertion. You may number your three pieces of textual evidence or use bullet points. Be specific about what part of the quotation you are analyzing. Only select parts of the text that you are analyzing. See the below format for MLA in-text citation of prose.

“The direct quotation from the text is written with double quotation marks at the beginning and at the end. After the end quotation mark, a parenthesis is placed with the page number inside. A period is placed after the parenthesis”(7).

Commentary: The commentary or analysis explains why all three pieces of evidence is significant and how the evidences support your debatable assertion. In 2-3 sentences, the commentary provides insight and literary meaning about the text.


Example Format of Literary Analysis:

Teacher given passage from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee:

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. (5)

Assertion: In the above passage, Harper Lee effectively describes the comfortable, slow pace of the town of Maycomb through visual and tactile imagery to establish an initially peaceful setting in her novel.

Evidence and Commentary:
1. “…the courthouse sagged in the square”
Commentary 1: The description of the grass on the sidewalks and how the “courthouse sagged in the square” utilizes visual imagery to establish Maycomb as an unchanged setting, where even the buildings have begun to sag with the weight of time (Lee 5).

2. “Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning” and mules “flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square”
Commentary 2: Tactical imagery is also present in the passage when Scout describes the heat as so overpowering that “men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning” and mules sat swatting flies “in the sweltering shade of the live oaks” (Lee 5). The tactile imagery of the hot summer setting also suggests a laziness about the setting.

3. The ladies “were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum”
Commentary 3: The description of the ladies who “were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum” further effectively uses imagery to present an old fashioned, peaceful setting (Lee 5). Women are described as “soft teacakes” adorned with “frosting” appealing to both the reader’s senses of sight and touch and conveying the sweet, serenity of the quiet, Southern town.

Concluding Commentary Sentence(s): The imagery creates the feeling of peace and at the same time sets the stage for the changes that occur in Maycomb as a result of the Tom Robinson trial. The reader envisions a quiet setting, which starkly contrasts with the racial and societal tensions that the trial presents.