Question 1
the conclusion is arguably the hardest paragraph of an analysis to write. select all of the following that may be used to make a conclusion memorable rather than repetitive.
question options:

evaluating an author's success in conveying his/her message

offering an opinion of the value or significance of the text

making predictions about what will happen next in the text

providing a personal statement about the topic of the text

using one or two interesting direct quotations from the text

question 2
select all that could serve as a hook for the introduction of a literary analysis.
question options:
an analogy or metaphor
a definition of terms
a meaningful quotation
a universal idea
a startling fact

question 3
click

to read the wages of sin literary analysis. (note: some paragraphs of the original essay have been removed, but all the information needed to answer the questions is provided.) match each example from the essay with the part of the literary analysis that the example fulfills.
clincher
hook
thesis
commentary
topic sentence
transition
parenthetical citation
summary
lead-in
concrete detail
1. trust is like a mirror; once it has been shattered, nothing ever looks quite the same.
2. in "rappaccini's daughter," hawthorne exposes the effects of betrayal in order to demonstrate that all in this world is untrustworthy and death is the only certainty.
3. perhaps the deeper cause of the tragedy lies in the fact that neither giovanni nor rappaccini love or trust beatrice more than his beliefs.
4. as she dies from the antidote, she charges giovanni with her death saying, "farewell, giovanni. thy words of hatred are like lead within my , was there from the first not more poison in thy nature than in mine? " (420).
5. so giovanni, like rappaccini, is betrayed by faith in an idea.
6. this story goes beyond mere tragedy, however.
7. rappaccini is confronted with his treachery by beatrice in her dying moments when she asks,
8. still, wages of betrayal are more horrible - life.
9. she turns from the poison with which her father nourished and sustained her and accepts the antidote which giovanni, her lover offers her.
10. (399)

question 4
select all that are essential to an effective introduction to a literary analysis.
question options:

a memorable clincher

the author and title of the work

a description of the setting

a thesis statement about the theme

a very brief summary of the text