What literary elements does each use to illustrate or emphasize its theme?

Instructions

Prepare

First, choose which two works you’ll be focusing on for this essay.

· You can choose two short stories, two poems, or one of each

· It is recommended (though not required) that the two works you choose come from the same Module

· The two works should have a topic or theme in common

Then, re-read the works.

· What do they have in common? What topics, themes, and literary devices are shared?

· How do they differ? Are they expressing the same theme in different ways? Discussing the same topic but expressing different themes?

· What literary elements does each use to illustrate or emphasize its theme?

· Make note of quotes from the texts that you might want to use in your essay.

Review these resources:

· The Spiderman Paper.docx: This annotated sample essay points out all the required formatting and organizational components in an essay

· Video guide to literary analysis

· Writing Toolkit: Compare / Contrast

Write

For this essay, you’ll be comparing how two different works explore the same or similar themes in their own ways.