ENGL 311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dangling Modifier, Thesis Statement
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Central task: comprehend the poem, and find the meaning of it. Develop a mature reading of the poem, and have a solid understanding of it. Show that you can describe the form of the poem (formal elements) such as rhyme, alliteration, (cid:373)eter . Figurative la(cid:374)guage, (cid:373)etaphors, co(cid:374)ceits : characters or voices within the poem, allusio(cid:374)s . Writing handbook has sections on writing effective paragraphs, that we will be marked against. **what is a paragraph: a bubble that is coherent, topic sentence, with evidence within it, "as i walked out one evening, assume that the reader is aware of a ballad, and literary forms. "presents a dialogue between unconditional love and mortality: give a sentence about the topic, then get into the theme, w. h. Don"t write a list en route to giving the argument.