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Understanding Literary Analyses
Your feelings about a novel or story inspire how you write about it. You may have felt the main character’s pain or shared in the person’s joy. Or you may have loved the suspenseful plot. In a literary analysis, you share feelings like these.
Consider the Writing Situation
Use the PAST strategy to understand the situation for your literary analysis. (See page 6.)
Link to the Traits
Pay special attention to ideas, organization, and voice.
Ideas ■
Write about a book or story that truly interests you. Focus your writing on one or two key elements and support your main points with examples from the text.