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Another Essay Prompt on a Literary Element: Choose a scene or character in one of Austen's's novels that awakens "thoughtful laughter." Then write an essay in which you show why this laughter is thoughtful and how it contributes to the meaning of the work. Emma Essay Prompt on a Literary Element: Read the excerpt from Emma carefully. Then write a coherent essay showing how this passage provides a characterization and evaluation of Emma more than of Harriet. Another Essay Prompt on a Literary Element: This work offers a happy ending through moral development. Write a well-organized essay that identifies the moral reconciliation evident on the ending and analyze its significance in the work as a whole. Mansfield Park, Essay Prompt on a Literary Element: This novel uses contratsting places (for example, two countries, two cities or towns, two houses, or the land and the sea) to represent opposed forces or ideas that arecentral to the meaning of the work. Write an essay explaining how the places differ, what each place represents, and how their contrast contributes to the overall meaning of the work. PersuasionEssay Prompt on a Literary Element: This novel depicts a conflict between a parent or parental figure and a son or daughter. Write a well-organized essay that analyzes the sources of the conflict and explain how the conflict contributes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Avoid plot summary. Pride and PrejudiceEssay Prompt on a Literary Element: Select an important character in this novel who is a villain. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze the nature of ther character's villainy and show how it enhances the meaning of the work . Avoid plot summary. Do not base your essay on a work that you know about only from having seen a television or movie production of it. Another Essay Prompt on a Literary Element: Some of the most significant events in this work is mental or psychological; for example, awakenings, discoveries, changes in consciousness. In a well-organized essay, describe how the author manages to gives these internal events the sense of excitement, suspense, and climax usually associated with external events. Do not merely summarize the plot. Another Essay Prompt on a Literary Element: In this novel, a confidant (male) or a confidante (female) is used to be present when the hero or heroine needs a sympathetic listener to confide in. Frequently, as Henry James puts it, this friend or relative of the protagonist can be as much "the reader's friend as the protagonist's." Write an essay in which you discuss the various ways this character functions in the work. Another Essay Prompt on a Literary Element: This novel includes a scene of social occasion--for example, weddings, funerals, parties--which reveals the values of the characters and the society in which they live. In a focused essay, discuss the contribution the scene makes to the meaning of the work as a whole. Click below to get the full online text of your choice: |