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Analyzing Rhetorical Techniques in Literary Essays: A Comprehensive Study

This guide provides a detailed framework for analyzing essays and passages, focusing on the use of rhetorical strategies. It includes a step-by-step process for crafting analysis essays, emphasizing the importance of diction, imagery, details, language, and syntax (DIDLS). Examples, writing prompts, and vocabulary words like "enervate," "evanescent," and "lummox" are integrated to enrich the analysis experience. With specific guidance on structuring essays and embedding quotations, this resource aims to enhance the writing skills of diligent students preparing for literary analysis assignments.

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Analyzing Rhetorical Techniques in Literary Essays: A Comprehensive Study

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  1. February 6-10 Analysis Essays

  2. Monday, February 6 • Word • Analysis prompt • DIDLS

  3. Word of the Day (19) • Enervate (v.) To drain some physical or emotional strength • IN-er-vate • Homework can be very useful, but it generally serves only to enervate the diligent students who bother to do it.

  4. Analysis Essay (prewrite) • Read/mark the passage (5-6 minutes) • Use DIDLS as a guide • Look for tone and purpose • Passage could be narrative, expository, or persuasive • Outline your thoughts (2-3 minutes) • Don’t just list rhetorical terms • Explain what they are doing

  5. Analysis essay (draft) • Drafting should take 25-30 minutes • Analyze the (rhetorical) strategies that (the author) uses to (achieve a purpose) • Cite author and passage in intro • Don’t list rhetorical strategies; discuss author’s technique

  6. DIDLS • DICTION- word choice • IMAGERY- sensory details • DETAILS- what info is presented • LANGUAGE- description of passage • SYNTAX- sentence structure

  7. Prompt • In the following passage from The Great Influenza, an account of the 1918 flu epidemic, author John M. Barry writes about scientists and their research. Read the passage carefully. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze how Barry uses rhetorical strategies to characterize scientific research.

  8. Tuesday, February 7 • Word • Sample essays • Analysis prompt

  9. Word of the Day (20) • Evanescent (adj.) fleeting; temporary • ev-uh-NES-sent • Many celebrities such as MC Hammer enjoy a sudden rise in fame, but they are left poor and forgotten when their evanescent popularity fades.

  10. Sample Essay 2A • Introduction • Mention author/passage • Begin broadly • THESIS statement?

  11. Sample Essay 2A • Body paragraphs • SPECIFIC • Thorough explanation • Embedded quotations • Refers back to the thesis (uncertainty)

  12. Sample Essay 2A • Conclusion • A little long • Does not begin with “In conclusion” or “All in all” • Refers back to his thesis without repeating the intro

  13. Samuel Johnson prompt • Write a thesis statement • How does Johnson “craft his denial of the woman’s request? • Write an introduction (including the thesis statement) • Write a body paragraph

  14. Wednesday, February 8 • Word • Samuel Johnson prompt • Practice paragraphs • *4.0 luncheon (afternoon)

  15. Word of the Day (21) • albeit (conj.) although, even if • this word is used to introduce a statement that modifies or qualifies a previous statement • all-BEE-it • Teaching is a very difficult, albeit rewarding job.

  16. Word of the Day (part 2) • Albethey (conj.) plural of albeit • I have lots of reasons, albethey silly ones, to quit my job and move to Mexico.

  17. Samuel Johnson prompt • Write a thesis statement • How does Johnson “craft his denial of the woman’s request? • Write an introduction (including the thesis statement) • Write a body paragraph • USE SPECIFIC DETAILS!!

  18. Embedding quotations • BAD: • “I have seen your son this morning; he seems a pretty youth.” This means Johnson did not really know him. • GOOD: • Though Johnson had “seen [her] son,” it is clear that he did not know the boy very well, for he remarks only that “he seems a pretty youth.”

  19. Checklist • Broad introduction? • CLEAR thesis statement? • Thesis statement addresses the prompt? • Smooth transition into body? • Specific details? • Embedded quotations?

  20. Reading project • 30 days remaining • You should allow yourself about one week to do all of the written work • That means you should be finished reading within three weeks

  21. Thursday, February 9 • Analysis essay • “Why Writers Write”

  22. Friday, February 10 • Word • Essays/rubrics • Reading project

  23. Word of the Day • Lummox (n.) a clumsy, stupid person • LUM-uks • Its hard to believe that it took Kim Kardashian 72 days to get rid of that lummox she married.

  24. Reading Project • 28 days remaining • Questions?

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