ENGL 1011: Literary Analysis Assistant -- 2

The main purposes of ENGL 1011: Literature and Composition II are to expand your capacity to understand and think analytically about poetry and drama, as well as to further develop your skills in writing critical and interpretive essays on literary works.

More specifically, you should be able to:

Identify and explain major styles, components, and techniques of twentieth-century poetry and of a selection of plays, using specific examples from works studied in the course.

Identify and discuss literary patterns in a poem or play.

Identify and explain the contribution to the work as a whole of important passages selected from the plays and poems studied in this course.

With respect to the poetry section of the course, you should be able to:

Explicate poems not included among the selections studied in this course.

Evaluate and compare different authorial treatments of particular themes and subjects in poems from the course reading list.

With respect to the drama section of the course, you should be able to:

Analyze dramatic structure, characterization, theme, and specific techniques in the plays studied in this course.

Describe the purposes and most common techniques of a range of plays, including tragedy, comedy, and expressionist drama.

Move from reading a play to imagining how it might be performed on stage.

1 Unit 1: Introduction to Poetry Assignment 1: Poetry Open Book Quiz
Complete at end of Unit 1.
2 to 3 Unit 2: Understanding and Writing about Poetry Assignment 2a: Poetry Discussion Posts
Begin at end of Unit 2.
4 to 6 Unit 3: Style and Subject in Poetry Assignment 2a: Poetry Discussion Posts
Complete by end of Unit 3.
Assignment 3: Poetry Explication
Complete by end of Unit 3.
7 to 9 Unit 4: Introduction to Drama and Tragedy Assignment 2b: Drama Discussion Posts
Continue throughout Unit 4.
10 to 12 Unit 5: Comedy in Drama Assignment 2b: Drama Discussion Posts
Complete by end of Unit 5.
Assignment 4: Drama Essay
Complete by end of Unit 5.