Due Monday

Please complete a "prose prospectus" for the passage from "Middlemarch" and the passage from "Belinda". The frame for a prospectus is below, followed by an example I typed up from "The Other Paris."

Prose Prospectus Frame:

Title and Author of Passage:

Approximate Era of Passage: Victorian, Modern, Contemporary, etc

New Vocabulary: Write down fancy new words from the passage and their definitions.

Restatement of Prompt as Question:

Devices you would mention in your essay: Remember, these do not have to be full paragraph topics, but just an appropriate literary word that you could use in your essay.

Answer to the prompt question as thesis/poa: This is your actual thesis statement.

Key Quotations for support You may either retype these quotations OR turn in a highlighted, underlined, copy of the text indicating which quotations you would use.

One Analytical Unit: This should be an excerpt from your essay that uses a targeted quotation(s) and says important stuff about it. Try to sound insightful, fancy, and make good inferences.

My Example:

Title and Author of Passage: “The Other Paris” by Mavis Gallant

Approximate Era of Passage: Modern

New Vocabulary: none (it was a pretty simple passage.)

Restatement of Prompt as Question: What is the specific social commentary?

Devices you would mention in your essay: Characterization, Narrative Voice, imagary Irony, Satire, Diction, point of view.

Answer to the prompt question as thesis/poa: Gallant presents a scathing criticism of passionless and depersonalized expectations of marriage based on social convenience and money through her use of characterization and ironic narrative voice.

Key Quotations for support: I think you know what I want for this.

One Analytical Unit: Gallant begins with an ironic contrast between the idyllic imagery of Carol’s imagined proposal, replete with “moonlight”, “barrows of violets”, “misty backgrounds”, and that most iconic of Romantic images the “Eifel tower”, juxtaposed with the prosaic reality of being proposed to at lunch over a “tuna-fish salad.” The disparity of these two images, strengthened by the olfactory unpleasantness of a smelly and boring lunch option, creates from the beginning an air of ridiculousness the permeates the passage, letting the reader know that Carol and Howard’s relationship is subject of her critical ridicule.