The document provides guidance on writing a literary essay, including its purpose, main principles, and elements. It explains that a literary essay analyzes and evaluates a literary work by breaking it down into parts and developing a central thesis. Each essay must have an introduction with a clear thesis, body paragraphs with evidence that support the thesis, and a conclusion. The document outlines the key components of a successful literary essay such as a descriptive title, introduction of the problem/question, thesis, evidence, topic sentences, analysis, and conclusion.

1. Literary Essay
Literary Essay Format and Tips
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2. THE PURPOSE of Literary
Essays
Any literary essay has the task
to analyze, carefully examine
and eventually evaluate a
literary work or aspects and
elements of a literary work.
In order to make this analysis
successful the subject of the
essay should be broken down
into it’s component parts.
And most importantly: Every
essay has a central idea or
THESIS about the literary
work that should be
elaborated and developed
throughout the essay itself.
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3. The MAIN PRINCIPLES of
Literary Essays
Every essay must be organized
in a way that every part is
enabling readers to gain more
understanding of the central
Before you ask yourself how to write a literary
essay,
You need to know that every essay must cover
the topic or literary work that is written about.
Every essay must have a central idea (thesis).
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4. FIRST STEP: Starting to
Write
Therefore before you start to read a literary work
you should have a set of questions and main
notes that will guide you through the reading
process.
Literary essay writing begins with the
act of reading!
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5. Here you can find some examples of these
questions and tips in order to start the writing.
If you are still not sure how to begin your essay,
you can find more details in this article from the
Harvard College Writing Center.
You can find more Litearay Essay Tips on our web
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FIRST STEP: Starting to
Write

6. Elements of
Literary Essays
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7. ESSAY Title
In every literary essay writing the title should
describe the approach and the main thesis of
the author and at the same time get the
attention of the readers. The title itself should
not only represent the title of the literary
work, because it can misdirect readers.
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8. PROBLEM or Question
• In this part the author explains what will be
clarified and what idea will be developed in the
essay. The main role in the first paragraphs of
an essay is to clearly establish the problem or
question.
• It is important to address the problem or
question by respecting the literary essay format.
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9. • In order to gain the reader’s interest in this first part, the
author can use a quotation, a provocative question, a brief
anecdote, or a combination of these.
• Also it is necessary to include the title of the literate work
and the name of it’s author.
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PROBLEM or Question

10. THESIS
The main idea or thesis is not same as a topic,
which represents only a subject area of the
essay. A good thesis has to be arguable – in a
way that it is distinguished from a fact or a
assumption.
Ordinary, the thesis statement is presented at
the end of the introductory paragraph.
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11. EVIDENCE
Material evidence are used to confirm the thesis
and help in exploring the thesis more into
details. Authors should also consider and
include counter-evidence.
The rule of two in written evidence: The writer
should supply at least two words of analysis for
every word of a citation, and usually more.
Textual evidence consists of summaries,
quotations, specific details, and paraphrases.LiteraryEssay.org

12. TOPICSentence
Each paragraph should start off with a Topic
Sentence, which helps in relating the details of
the paragraph the main thesis and connects the
details of the paragraph itself.
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13. ANALYSIS and Reflection
While writing a literary analysis essay the task is
to emphasize significant details of the evidence
and to highlight patterns that might otherwise be
undetected.
Although analysis is generally correlated to
evidence, reflection is a process that builds upon
analysis in order to support larger claims.
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14. CONCLUSION
A conclusion gives essays a sense of
completeness in order to let the readers know
that they have come to the end of essay
paper. It can summarize the thesis in different
words, conclude the main points that have
been made, or make a significant comment
about the work from a new perspective.
A conclusion should never bring up a new
topic for the essay.
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15. STRUCTURE
How the individual sections are organized and
what kind of content flow is presented (either
chronological or repetitive).
There are different types and approaches to the
structure itself, so you can find more
information in the Berkeley Essay Structure and
Citation Guidelines. You can also find different
Literary Essay Samples.
Also you can find out more from Yale College
Writing Center. LiteraryEssay.org

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