Specifications
✅ Meets Standard.
Your entry is complete, on-topic, and submitted according to the specifications and requirements of the prompt.
Quotes & Evidence
✅ Meets Standard.
Your entry includes concrete, specific details from the text, and you introduce, attribute, and incorporate evidence well using MLA style.
Formal Features & Context
✅ Meets Standard.
You have identified several relevant literary terms and devices present in the passage, and you generally do a good job connecting them with the meaning being conveyed.
For the context step, however, it would be more helpful to actually look up the author or some of the cultural references you allude to later on and list those as concrete details here. This is more of a space for giving information than pointing out information you don’t currently have.
Close Reading & Thesis
🛠 Needs Work.
Your observations and analysis of the text are generally quite strong, but your argument still needs a little work.
In the last step of the process, you want to really draw on the observations and analysis you’ve made earlier and turn that into an argument. It’s okay to repeat yourself a little bit here, because the Argue step is essentially the payoff for all of the evidence gathering you’ve done in the steps that precede it.
To meet the standard here, you will want to expand your argument and your evidence supporting it substantially. Review the examples in the Close Reading Guide to see what I mean here, and you may want to have a look at How to Write a Literary Critical Thesis for tips on structuring your argument.
Overall Feedback
This is very close, Liana! You’re observations are astute, you just need to work a bit more on shaping them into an argument. See the comments above for suggestions on how to do so, and resubmit by the end of the week if you would still like to earn credit.
