Unit Activity: The Early and Mid-Nineteenth Century: Romanticism Literary Analysis
Conduct and write a literary analysis about any work you have read in this unit.

Reread the work you select, making note of any particular literary element that stands out. Choose the literary element and aspect of the text that you will examine in your analysis. Follow the procedure outlined below to write your literary analysis. Your paper should be approximately two to three pages in length. It should include a logical introduction, body, and conclusion that develops and supports your thesis. Include a works cited page as well as in-text citations in MLA format to document your sources, including the literary text you selected to analyze.

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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)

When greg came home for lunch, he realized that his air conditioner was broken. fragment, run on or complete sentence?

Buck did not cry out. he did not check himself, but drove in upon spitz, shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat. they rolled over and over in the powdery snow. spitz gained his feet almost as though he had not been overthrown, slashing buck down the shoulder and leaping clear. twice his teeth clipped together, like the steel jaws of a trap, as he backed away for better footing, with lean and lifting lips that writhed and snarled. read this passage. explain what the conflict shows about buck and spitz.