Essay 2 – ENC 1102 Purpose: For this essay, you’ll be selecting a nonliterary “text,” evaluating/comparing it against a set of characteristics associated with a particular literary approach, and composing an essay to develop and share your findings (both descriptive/illustrative and analytical/critical). Topic: There are 4 topical options to choose from, 2 of which are poetry‐based, and 2 of which are satire‐based. Commit to ONE prompt, and focus your essay there. Materials: All options will require the use of vocabulary appropriate to specific topics, and I’ve attached a guide to literary terminology by Bedford / St. Martin’s for you to reference. Materials specific to satire and to poetry are included in the instructions for each. Specifications: Print out a copy of the general rubric and review the criteria before writing your essay. After drafting your essay, review your work against the expectations stated in the rubric to verify that your essay satisfies the requirements. If your essay falls short of the criteria associated with the particular grade you’d like to earn, revise it as necessary to meet those standards. The required length is 500‐750 words. While this assignment measures an array of literacy tasks, transcription is not one of them, so this word count does not include material (that you still may wish, or need, to include) in block quotes or multiple lines of reproduced poetry. Page formatting needs to be consistent with MLA specifications. This includes areas like pagination, headings, essay titles, titles of literary works, margins, font restrictions, paragraph formatting, and line spacing. Parenthetical (in‐text) citations need to be accurate, and adhere to MLA guidelines for all sources referenced, whether by paraphrase or quotation. MLA guidelines vary based on the format, structure, and type of source you are using. Endnote citations need to be provided according to MLA specifications for Works Cited entries and pages, and need to accurately match the sources cited inside the easy (it needs to tie out with all parenthetical citations). These guidelines vary based on the format, structure, and type of source you are using. Final copies need to be uploaded to Safe Assign via Blackboard prior to being handed in. Turn in a hard copy of your final draft, along with your outline, rough draft(s), and any other prewriting materials you might have (such as peer editing or after‐the‐fact outlines). Satire‐Based Options Additional materials for this essay include: Literary Terminology guide by Bedford / St. Martin’s (stated above) Satire presentation from Nilsen & Nilsen “The Purpose and Method of Satire” by Robert Harris Wikipedia’s list of satirical films (option A only) A‐ From the attached list by Wikipedia, select and view (or re‐view) a film and determine the extent to which it is, or is not, a work of satire. Explain why you think this. Of course, the range of options becomes drastically reduced vis‐à‐vis factors of time and accessibility ‐ not to mention those limits imposed by you, the writer, in assessing both the appropriateness and feasibility of a particular selection. Include evidence from the text to back up all assertions and be specific, and use logic and evidence to defend your position. B‐ Identify and discuss how and in what ways Jonathan Swift’s “A Modest Proposal” functions as literary satire. Include evidence from the text to back up all assertions. State the text’s objectives, and evaluate the strategies Swift uses against the range of other options available to him. State whether you think the strategies he uses are effective, and why you think this way. Be specific, and use logic and evidence to defend your position. Poetry‐Based Options Additional materials for this essay include: ‐ Literary Terminology guide by Bedford / St. Martin’s (stated above) ‐ “Automatic Detection Of Internal And Imperfect Rhymes In Rap Lyrics” by Hirjee & Brown (this is an example of a structural linguistics‐based approach to poetic analysis and doesn’t need to be read in full or modeled, just scanned, with purpose and findings reviewed more closely). ‐ Review and excerpt of Adam Bradley’s The Anthology of Rap by NPR (option A only) ‐ Sweeney’s Assoc. Content post titled “Why Song Lyrics Aren’t Poetry” (option A only) A‐ Select a song and determine the extent to which its lyrics should, or should not, be considered poetry. Use discretion in selecting the song, as it needs to be feasible and appropriate for critical reflection in an academic essay. If you use more than one song, be clear how both relate to your analysis and to each other. Include evidence from the lyrics to back up all assertions and be specific, relying logic and evidence to defend your position. B‐ Identify poetic devices found in any of the works we’ve read for class by the following writers: Marvell, Donne, Milton, Marlowe, Jonson, Herrick, Carew, Lovelace, Blake, Shelley, Wadsworth, or Keats, and compose an essay examining a writer’s use of such devices. Include evidence from the poems to back up all assertions. Describe how each of the poem’s poetic elements you examine work to affect the meaning, and how these elements work together to affect the overall meaning of the poem. If you use poems by multiple authors, you’ll need to explain how each relates to your analysis and to each other (even if by contrast). Be specific, and use logic and evidence to defend your position.