Setting, Language, and Tone in “Lullaby” by Leslie Marmon Silko
Assignment Summary
1200 word minimum. Should include everything you did for the central idea paper. In your 3rd and 4th paragraphs, identify and analyze the significance of the setting, why it is important to the story. In your 5th, 6th, and 7th paragraphs, identify and analyze 3 devices of language used in the story. In your final paragraph, identify and discuss the tone of the story. As always, use textual evidence to support your claims. Please select only from one of the stories listed below
Paper Structure
Paragraph One: A concise summary of the story (no more than half a page double spaced) The last sentence of paragraph one should include a central idea statement that uses the words “The central idea of ……”
Paragraph Two: Provide and analyze textual evidence that supports your central idea statement. Your analysis should present an explicit explanation of how the selected textual evidence supports the central idea statement. Do not let the quotes speak for themselves.
Paragraph Three: Describe and analyze the setting in detail focusing on the specific and general settings that exist throughout the story.
Paragraph Four: Provide analysis of two or three of the following: the physical, emotional, economic, political, social and psychological environment inhabited by the characters. How does the use of setting help shape the central idea?
Paragraph Five: Select one of the following language devices used in the story: imagery, symbolism, simile, metaphor, repetition, or irony. Provide examples of the language device. Offer an analysis of the language device that explains how it contributes to the central idea of the story.
Paragraph Six: Select a different language device used in the story: imagery, symbolism, simile, metaphor, repetition, or irony. Provide examples of the language device. Offer an analysis of the language device that explains how it contributes to the central idea of the story.
Paragraph Seven: Select yet another (different from the previous two) language device used in the story: imagery, symbolism, simile, metaphor, repetition, or irony. Provide examples of the language device. Offer an analysis of the language device that explains how it contributes to the central idea of the story.
Paragraph Eight: Identify and discuss the tone of the story. Provide textual evidence that support your claim about tone and explain how the textual evidence helps establish the tone.
