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Literary Analysis: Building a Thesis — Homework
Practice testing and revising literary-analysis thesis statements.
- 1.Why is "the story is about hunting" too general to be a literary-analysis thesis?
- 2.Revise this weak thesis into a stronger one: "Zaroff is a scary character in the story."
- 3.Name one literary technique Connell uses in "The Most Dangerous Game" and one theme it might connect to.
- 4.Write your own literary-analysis thesis about the story, naming a specific technique and the theme it develops.
- 5.Test your thesis: does it name a technique AND a theme? If not, what is missing?
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