Close Reading of a short passage … Select a passage from the text discussed on the week of the Due Date. Choose no more than 10 lines that you find interesting and meaningful, that you’d like to analyze. Type the passage (in single spacing) at the top of your paper. After the passage, indicate in parentheses the chapter and page number of the text in which the passage is found. In analyzing the passage, answer the following questions:
1) What theme or issue is raised by the passage?
2) What you think the text is saying about this issue and why does this matter?
3) How does this passage relate to the work as a whole and how is the theme or issue in this passage raised elsewhere in the work?
4) What formal features –such as literary tropes (metaphors, similes, hyperbole, irony, rhetorical question) or literary schemes (such as alliteration, repetition, assonance) are employed to express the meaning of the passage and related passages?
Please organize your analysis by answering these questions, in a, 1, 2, 3, 4, fashion. Answer the questions in a clear and explicit manner.
Your Close Reading should be 2 pages long. Since this exercises is aimed at practicing “finding evidence in the text,” write without using “I think…” or, “In my opinion…” For example, say, “the quote suggests Jack is a thief,” rather than, “I think Jack is a thief.” Then proceed with explicit evidence in the text –such as words, images, or symbols, etc.– that proove Jack is indeed a thief. There will be further instructions and examples in class. Include a Work Cited page at the end of the paper, following MLA format. Make sure NOT to place the translator’s name in place of the author’s. The Translator’s name follows the title. Example: Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: 1. Translated by Robert M. Durling, New York, Oxford University press, 1997. Print.