“Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
About the Assignment
Literature is an essential part of our culture and how we express ourselves. In this course, you learned how to understand and analyze different types of literature, from poetry to novellas. For this assignment, write an 800-1200-word essay in response to one of the prompts below. Include quotations and textual evidence from the works you’ve chosen and cite them in MLA format. Please cite any Study.com lessons you use as resources (including lesson title and instructor’s name). Your essay must be followed by an MLA style References page with at least 2 sources. Do not include an abstract. Including a cover page is optional.
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Assignment Prompt
- In this course, you learned about a variety of literary characteristics including connotation, denotation, tone and mood. Choose one or more poems from your course reading list and explain how at least one of these characteristics is employed and how it contributes to the overall message of the poem. Use examples from the poems you’ve chosen to support your claims.[unique_solution]
Grading Rubric
Your essays will be graded based on the following rubric:
| Category | Unacceptable (0-1) | Needs Improvement (2-3) | Good (4) | Excellent (5) | Total Possible Points |
| Structure (x3) | Structure is illogical or significantly hinders understanding | Arguments are difficult to identify; ideas are disjointed | Evidence is provided & is relevant to the thesis, but transitions and connections are lacking | Arguments are well integrated; ideas flow logically; main points are identifiable | 15 |
| Analysis (x3) | No examples are used to support arguments; analysis is missing or incorrect | Few or weak examples are given to support main points | Examples are given to support most points, but not all; analysis lacks originality | All main points are supported with evidence and include original analysis | 15 |
| Thesis (x2) | Thesis is missing | Thesis lacks clarity or is not well-developed | Thesis adequately states the student’s argument | Thesis clearly & logically states the student’s argument | 10 |
| Mechanics (x2) | Incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and use of standard English grammar hinders understanding | Several instances of incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage of standard English grammar | Few instances of incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage of standard English grammar | No or very few instances of incorrect spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and usage of standard English grammar | 10 |
Reading List
Poetry
- Select two of the following Shakespearean sonnets to read:
- Sonnet 18
- Sonnet 60
- Sonnet 94
- Sonnet 116
- Sonnet 130
- Read all of the following poems:
- ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ by John Keats
- ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe
- ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning
- ‘Song of Myself’ by Walt Whitman
- ‘Funeral Blues’ by W.H. Auden
- ‘Birches’ by Robert Frost
Short Fiction
- Choose one of the following novellas:
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
- Select two of the following short stories to read:
- ‘Story of an Hour’ by Kate Chopin
- ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’ by Flannery O’Connor
- ‘The Lottery’ by Shirley Jackson
- ‘The Life to Come’ by E.M. Forster
- ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place’ by Ernest Hemingway