Paper instructions:
Text-Analysis Response: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Your Task: Consider a work you have recently read and write a well-developed, text-based essay response that includes two to three body paragraphs. In your response, identify a central idea in the work and analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis. Do net simply summarize the text.
Guidelines: Be sure to:
• Identify a central idea in the text
• Analyze how the author’s use of one writing strategy (literary element or literary technique or rhetorical device) develops this central idea. Examples include: characterization, conflict, denotation/connotation, metaphor, simile, irony, language use, point-of-view, setting, structure, symbolism, theme, tone, etc.
• Use strong and thorough evidence from the text to support your analysis
• Organize your ideas in a cohesive and coherent manner
• Maintain a formal style of writing
• Be at a 10H level