The Ambitous Guest/The Story of an hour

PURPOSE

The primary purpose of this assignment is to allow you to read and analyze two literary short stories/excerpts/chapters, formulate your own creative and insightful opinions on the works, state said opinions in a correctly formatted MLA research paper, and support aforementioned opinions with properly documented sources.

The completion of this assignment will also demonstrate your ability to correctly utilize GALILEO to research and document academic sources as well as your ability to successfully utilize MLA format.

TASK

Requirements:

5 pages minimum excluding Works Cited page
MLA Format (please use attached template)
2 primary sources (the works of fiction)
4 secondary sources (journal article, criticism, essay, etc.) from GALILEO
3 Structural Elements of Fiction must be mentioned (Structural Elements and Literary Terms Folder)
2 Figurative/Connotative Devices must be mentioned (Structural Elements and Literary Terms Folder)
You will write a paper in MLA Format analyzing a MINIMUM of two works from the folder titled “Short Stories/Chapters/Excerpts”.

You must use a minimum of one quote EACH from four (4) secondary sources (full text articles from GAILEO) and two (2) primary sources (the primary sources for this paper are the two works being discussed).

One quote from each source should be presented and properly cited in the paper using in-text citations. Further, each source should be documented on a correctly formatted Works Cited page.

You may come up with his or her own original thesis.

Possible thesis topics could include a comparison/contrast/analysis of two or more works in terms of literary style, theme, characters, settings, author purpose. etc.

Please submit the paper as a Microsoft Word attachment using the provided MLA Template.

CRITERIA

You will be successful in this assignment if you successfully produce an analysis paper that adheres to the above directions while fully demonstrating your ability to form and support opinions on two literary short stories/excerpts/chapters with accompanying and appropriate support.