<p>1) What is the tone of a passage? In analysis, how to bring out the tone. Is it like imagery?
2) How long should the essay be?
3) I figured out that we should only pick three elements in order to analyze. What should the 3 elements be? (i.e: which are the easiest to analyze?)
Thanks</p>
<p>Else I forgot to ask:
4) Should we use organic writing to write?</p>
<p>Tone is the speaker’s/narrator’s attitude towards the topic. For example, if you read a modest proposal, swift is very matter-of-fact towards the subject of eating babies, and is also playful. So a possible tone could be ‘blunt whimsy’, or ‘tongue-in-cheek sarcasm’ or ‘matter-of-fact playfulness.’
The essay should be as long as it takes for you to say everything you needed to say without rambling. And you only have approx. 40 minutes per essay Most good Timed writes I do are between 1.5 and 2 pages long. But there are others that can write 4 page essays in 40 minutes, and those can be excellent. I also know a girl who most of the time fits her essays onto 1 page (maximum 1 1/3 pp) and always gets 8s on her essays.
There is no ‘easiest’ to analyze. It depends on the passage, it depends on the type of passage. Much of the time on poems you can pick diction, details, imagery (which is really just diction + details), syntax. Those are the big 4 for poems. Prose is much more volatile and you can’t go in trying to guess which element is the best. It changes for every passage.
I don’t know what organic writing is.</p>
<p>Thanks for you reply.
But hey, I really don’t know how to tackle diction.
Do we really need to specify what we are analyzing except in the thesis statement? ( i.e we don’t have to say what we doing in the body paragraph)
Organic writing is a kind of writing that analyze elements as the prose go. As opposed to 2 other kinds of writing (one just analyze some of the elements and the other analyze one element in the whole essay)</p>