What is literary analysis?

Question

i have to pick out 3 passages from To Kill a Mockingbird and have to write a literary analysis for each one.

i dont even know what a literary analysis is. what is it? what are the parts to it? how can i write a good analysis?

thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Here are the how links and below you will find the Study Guides that will give you the what.

CRITICAL ANALYSIS

The purpose for writing a critique is to evaluate somebody's work (a book, an essay, a movie, a painting...) in order to increase the reader's understanding of it. A critical analysis is subjective writing because it expresses the writer's opinion or evaluation of a text. Analysis means to break down and study the parts. Writing a critical paper requires two steps: critical reading and critical writing.

http://users.utu.fi/bredelli/cda.html

http://www.brocku.ca/english/jlye/critic...

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To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - Study Guides:

Features: Chapter-By-Chapter Summary and Commentary, Plot Summary, Character Descriptions, Literary Analysis – Themes.

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/tkm/

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/mocking/

http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/mo...

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barr...

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Symbolism in To Kill a Mockingbird   (ESSAYs)

http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=414...

http://www.literatureclassics.com/essays...